Quotes About Attempt

They flipped the coin. Nathan chose tails. It came up heads. "How about best two out of three?" Nathan asked the ref. The ref curled his lip and said, "What are you talking about? No." Nathan said, "You can't blame a guy for trying.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

I always dreamed of being an entertainer. So, my whole life to some extent, or from the age that I can remember onwards, I knew I was going to have to make some sort of attempt at being noticed for being funny.

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

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.

Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual. It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, an immersion in the waters of reality and an unending re-creation.

People are never fair, even when they try to be...and few are the ones who try.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

I'll tell you something. If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

She nodded. "The Michigan State Library fire was caused by a student trying to burn the state draft board files so he wouldn't be drafted and ended up destroying twenty thousand volumes.

It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The attempt looked so strange that Scipio started to mimic him behind his back. What's the silly giggling about? Barbarossa asked when Prosper and Renzo bust out laughing.

This Nature-sweet-and-pure business is only another effort at intellectualizing. Just an attempt to make all nature succumb to a few laws of the human mind.

Our goal is more modest: We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Attempting to do something, even if it doesn't succeed, is inspiring because we don't tend to regret what we do, we regret what we didn't do. Even following a futile attempt, we're inspired because we know that we gave it a shot. It's wondering whether we should or shouldn't try something that leaves us feeling stressed and incomplete.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation of the world and its life; the fairy tale records the free and joyful

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

Close but no cigar

It was worth a try.

Okay, let's try

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.