Attempt Quotes - page 2

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. (John Stuart Mill)
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. View quote
William Shakespeare
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. View quote
Federico Fellini
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. View quote
Albert Einstein
The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves. View quote
Ryan Gosling
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. View quote
Etty Hillesum
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples. View quote
John Updike
Faith - what is this emotion but a desperate attempt to escape from mind-burning fear? (David Zindell)
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. View quote
John Denham
Make voyages Attempt them ... there's nothing else. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact. View quote
André Malraux
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. View quote
Cicero
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. View quote
Stephen Hawking
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. View quote
Michael Korda
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. View quote
Thom Gunn
A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. View quote
Robert Browning
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes. View quote
Arianna Huffington
Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God. (William Carey (missionary))
Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
With all humility, I think, 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.' Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me. View quote
Jane Austen