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Attempt Quotes


These are some of the best 'Attempt' quotations and sayings.


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After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

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.

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

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

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.


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