Quotes of: Attempting Keyword

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

Harry Houdini

No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.

Charles Albert Gobat

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

James Northcote

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.

Sebastian Thrun

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Henry James

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

Flannery O'Connor

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Jimmy Carter

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

Derek Walcott

Don't fear failure...in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Bruce Lee

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

George P. Shultz

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.

Jack Schwartz

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Jonathan Swift

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

Joseph Heller

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.

Jesse Jackson

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Maureen Dowd

I make an attempt to do different kinds of films. There's no such formula for guaranteed success.

Katrina Kaif

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

Paul Berg

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

Tris Speaker

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

Change

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis