Quotes About Attempt

She went searching for her dreams, and she didn't find them, but she made the attempt.

Looks like I missed a party. Good. I wasn't really in the mood to off demons this evening. Haven't had my coffee yet. (Jared) You drink coffee? (Stryker) No, but it was my pathetic attempt at humor. (Jared)

Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

Only Valek would consider an attempt on my life a fascinating diversion.

Nought venture nought have.

En mi lápida quiero que diga: «Estaba loco, pero al menos lo intentó.» —¡Papá!

I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what I want. What I know is what we all know, whether we'll admit it or not: every attempt to impose the roundness of a well-made play on reality produces a disaster. Life just isn't so, nor will it be made so.

Don't think, try. —John Hunter

Hooked up with the nazis were the manson family women, sandra good and linda "squeaky" froame. Sandra had been sentenced to fifteen years for threatening the lives of business executives and government officials, and froame was serving a life sentence for attempting to kill president gerald ford. They were like the Bobbsey twins and clear out of their minds.

You may believe you have the gift of teaching, but until you attempt to teach, you really won't know for sure. Therefore

If you ask me for help, I probably won't be able to, but will that stop me from trying? Absolutely not.

One must attempt with feeling of total devotion to get success in any venture.

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort.

How does the law stand, eh, Hawley?" "Nothing to be done there," said Mr. Hawley. "I looked into it for Sprague. You'd only break your nose against a damned judge's decision." "Pooh! no need of law," said Mr. Toller. "So far as practice is concerned the attempt is an absurdity.

I work hard on the precision of my long shots, but you can't plan it in games. Sometimes it all just opens up for you to give it a try.

If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Did you know that 75 per cent of people who read the sentence, 'It is not possible to lick your own elbow', will try? The other 25 per cent work for the parcel delivery service and would like you to try for them.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

Naturalmente, la comparación de lo ocurrido a Sartre en este libro con lo que le ocurrió a Flaubert en el último que escribió es obligatoria. ¿Cabe un parecido mayor, un fracaso tan igualmente admirable y por razones tan idénticas como el de L'Idiot de la famille y Bouvard et Pécuchet? Ambas son tentativas imposibles, empresas destinadas a fracasar porque ambas se habían fijado de antemano una meta inalcanzable, estaban

Albany sometimes tried to rattle, but failed to emit an audible sound.

Mrs Draper took this as an order for her departure, and crept silently out of the room, closing the door behind her with the long protracted elaborate click which is always produced by an attempt at silence on such occasions.