Quotes About Attempt

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.

There is a limit to the nonsense even a dream can attempt.

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

It desolates me to disappoint you, but your brother is not here. Despite two really praiseworthy attempts at rescue." ... The hint of amusement irritated me, and sick and hurt as I was, I simply had to retort some thing. "Glad... at least... you're desolated.

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river. You feel lucky to canoe down it.

Trying is the first step to whatever comes next.

the other?" I tried using the new whatchamacallit

but men inspired by prophecy will attempt any foolishness in the knowledge that the fates have ordained their victory.

God commands us to make Him our absolute priority. Even attempting to place Him beside those other things we reverence most means dishonoring Him.

It might be impossible to make sense of life: life was not worth living until the attempt to do so had been made." CHARLES E. RAVEN

No sabes nada, no sabes si seré capaz de hacerlo, si me perderé o llegaré a tiempo, no sabes qué haré si me detienen, no sabes si hablaré... Yo no puedo asegurarte nada, sólo que lo intentaré, que procuraré llegar a la hora que me digas al lugar que me indiques, que entregaré el paquete y que cuidaré de que nadie me siga. Sólo eso.

Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.

To live upon credit, which is the same as exhausting the future, is certainly a present means of reconciling them: an attempt is made to do a little good now, at the expense of a great deal of harm in future. But such proceedings call forth the specter of bankruptcy, which puts an end to credit. What is to be done then?

America has probably been the most successful experiment in history. The American Dream was a glorious attempt. It was built on a religious foundation. Its earliest concepts came from Holy Scripture.

Romantic Egoist What's better, an idiot who never tries... or an idiot who at least takes a shot?

There have been cases in which pedophiles have done themselves harm after being caught.' 'Is that a fact? So you were worried that your entrapment might cause my client to attempt suicide?' 'Something like that, yes.' Flair put his hand to his chest. 'I'm touched.' 'Your Honor!' Portnoi shouted. Flair waved him off again. 'So you wanted to save my client?

One of the elderly members of the class answered her: "He's one of the Ewells, ma'am," and I wondered if this explanation would be as unsuccessful as my attempt.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, and it is not helpful for any nation to suggest that it would attempt to restrict traffic through the strait.