Attempt Quotes

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. (Derek Walcott)

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves... is what I call hell.

André Malraux

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

Denis Diderot

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Octavio Paz

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Warren Buffett

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

Thomas Carlyle

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. (Stephen Sondheim)

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Henry James

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Samuel Johnson

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

Edward Hopper

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

Livy

Live forever or die in the attempt.

Joseph Heller

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

Vannevar Bush

What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of autobiography.

Robert Penn Warren

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

Gregory Bateson

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Václav Havel

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. (H. G. Wells)

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

H. G. Wells

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.

Richard Dawkins

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

Anne Brontë

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

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