Quotes About Attempt

I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.

You can or you can't is not the matter.You wanted to or you tried is the whole game about.

You won't ever know, unless you try!

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.

You never know what you can do till you try.

Infinite are the mortifications of the bare attempt to emerge from obscurity; numberless the failures; and greater and more galling still the vicissitudes and tormenting accompaniments of success.

The Nuremberg Laws were a typical Hitlerian attempt to get out of a mess by taking a radical step, in effect a gamble, without thinking through the consequences.

In 1929, as a young man, British biologist J. D. Bernal wrote a book entitled "The World, The Flesh and the Devil" that Arthur C. Clarke called, "the most brilliant attempt at scientific prediction ever made.

If the Fascists wanted to have them ring, they would be able to do so only by force. In the end, no one made such an attempt. This was not a time to antagonize the pope.

Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.

It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.

Like my good friend Eminem the rapper says, you only get one shot.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.