Quotes About Attempt

Is it not natural that the madman, ignorant of his folly, should attempt things beyond his power?

Tienen algunas cosas tal aire de imposibles, que no se nos ocurre la idea de intentarlas, y hasta las evitamos instintivamente.

I guess most of 'em mean well.' 'Someday you can build a boat from meaning well and see how floats.' 'Tried that. Sank with me on it.

The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. But there is wonder in the attempt, knowing we are all destined to fall short, but forgoing reason and fear time and time again so deliberately.

A furia di provarci, comincio a pensare che il fatto di tentare senza mai riuscirci sia parte di me, proprio come quello che invece riesco a fare

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

How could so many well-meaning professionals have been so wrong and been complicit in creating such a disaster? This book attempts to answer that question.

Tria questioned the morality of even that type of illicit entry. But her need and the enthusiasm of Rehanne and Lina persuaded her to agree to the attempt, despite her strong mistrust of spells. The room door was locked, the

Miss Parry was gazing at this scene, in an attempt to dispel the mental indigestion occasioned by reading thirty consecutive essays on the pontificate of Leo X

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.

Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though.

But in the attempt, Rex said, in trying to drag something across the river from the murk of history into our time, into our language: that was, he said, the best kind of fool's errand.

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

There's no particular formula for 'Lost.' I mean, I think there were a few attempts to follow it and copy it, but it's a one-off, you know?

there are only a few times in life when you get to test everything you've got—when

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

They tried and failed, all of them?" "Oh, no." She shook her head. "They tried and died.

I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.

Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered.

Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.

In the history of U.S. elections, the fall of 2000 is notorious for the debacle that occurred in the country's attempt to elect a president that year.

What we see now is an attempt to destroy the last surviving communities: the family, the church, and the nation. This is one connection between liberalism and communist theory.