Quotes with attempt

Quotes 81 till 100 of 109.

  • Ben Shapiro The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Norman O. Brown The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • H Broun The most profilic period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
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  • John Stuart Mill The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Henry James The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Salman Rushdie The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Pearl S. Buck The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Fran Lebowitz There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Eugène Ionesco There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to ''realize'' myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have ''succeeded,'' this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is ''realizable.'' Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Ben Carson There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Albert Claude This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Bette Davis This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • John Mason Brown To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • James Allen To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Albert Einstein To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anish Kapoor We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Marlin Finch Lupus We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the never-ending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.
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  • Warren Buffett We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Ruth Ross We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.
    Ruth Ross
    New Zealand historian (1920 - )
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  • Robert H. Schuller What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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