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Quotes About Attempt

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
~ Andre Gide
You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well try what you do want.
~ Jim Carrey
That's all any of us can do. Try. sometimes I think it's not the winning or the losing, or even the right and wrong of things, it's the trying that makes us keep on living and hoping.
~ Jodi Thomas
The penalties for being an accessory to the attempt to flee the [GDR] were greater than the crime of trying to flee itself.
~ Anna Funder
I encourage members of the media to attempt to Be Best in their own professions.
~ Stephanie Grisham
I never promise something; I always say that I will try. Because if you promise something and you don't do it, you will always be under pressure.
~ Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Back out,' he suggested after a moment. 'Put her in reverse.' 'But the WHEEL'S off!' He hesitated. 'No harm in trying,' he said.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone. I
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ser libres para intentar algo no tiene nada que ver con lograrlo indefectiblemente
~ Fernando Savater
Whoever makes an attempt on a man's life, on a man's liberty, on a man's honour inspires us with a feeling of horror in every way analogous to that which the believer experiences when he sees his idol profaned.
~ Émile Durkheim
Rhyme is an attempt to reassemble and reaffirm the possibility of paradise. There is a wholeness, a serenity, in sounds coupling to form a memory.
~ Derek Walcott
Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.
~ Joseph Howe
Modernity was defined by the attempt to live in a universal story without a universal storyteller. The experiment has failed.
~ Robert W. Jenson
It would be ironic,' I panted to Burrich and Dutiful, 'if after all these years of longing to die, he finally perished in an attempt to live.' Burrich snorted. 'We all perish in our last attempt to live.
~ Robin Hobb
I'm trying to make myself invisible. That's an odd thing to attempt.
~ Lloyd Alexander
We cannot continue to flounder along with no attempt at a plan," he began firmly. "You've rejected mine. Have you a better?" "Run away was not my idea of a plan." She cocked an eye at him. "And when did I become we?" His mouth, tightening, paused. The first hour I saw you at Boar's Head, five gods help me.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I should like to see you try.
~ Loretta Chase
In fact, the bargain had been Carnegie's belated attempt to redress his own error.
~ Ron Chernow
Lo que acabo de hacer es el truco más viejo de la Humanidad frente al horror. La creatividad es justamente esto: un intento alquímico de transmutar el sufrimiento en belleza.
~ Rosa Montero
You can try and maybe fail, or not try and always fail
~ S.M. Stirling
Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish.
~ Scott Jurek
Love to the love tear, even too, same evil, Attempt, without strength and armor, To reach the unreachable star.
~ Jacques Brel
Win or lose, you are trying, that's what matters.
~ Avina Celeste
I don't have to be a success. I can just try.
~ Terry Bozzio