Quotes About Attempt

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

you look you see only bitterness or despair. If all of these conditions and situations apply to you, I recommend a refreshing suicide attempt.

Because either way, it's all kind of amazing—what we get to do, what we get to attempt, what we sometimes get to commune with.

the question of racism and its scientific basis had to be confronted at an international level as part of the attempt to build a successful post-fascist world order.

It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt," said Saliman quietly. "The Light shines more brightly in the darkness.

I suggest that we need a generation or two not of theory but of an attempt to discover the real phenomena of eros.

All you can do is give it your best shot. That's all anyone can ever ask of you.

There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.

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.

It would be impossible to find an actor to portray Om Puri, so I wouldn't even attempt it.

I flirted with Rihanna once. It didn't work - but it didn't not work. It didn't go anywhere, but it was a great conversation.

You only learn if you're given a crack at things.

It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.

I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with which to serve people. And so my role as a physician is my attempt to do that.

I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.

If no one ever tried anything, even what some folks say is impossible, no one would ever learn anything. So you just keep on trying and maybe some day you'll try something that will work.

We can do anything. It's not because our hearts are large, they're not, it's what we struggle with. The attempt to say Come over. Bring your friends. It's a potluck, I'm making pork chops, I'm making those long noodles you love so much.

You're a terrible liar, Sage, but I'm still touched you'd attempt it for my sake. A for effort.

Please don't think that my actions have been an attempt to earn redemption, or that what I've told you is a plea for mercy. I deserve to die.

Nothing in this book is an attempt to prevent the really resolute misery addicts from continuing their pursuit of frustration and failure.

No one in their right mind would attempt to salvage it, but there were plenty of people not in their right mind. The world was full of them, more produced every minute.