Attempt Quotes - page 40

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. (Joyce Appleby)
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. View quote
James Buchan
It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death. View quote
Lady Gregory
Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. View quote
Leonard Maltin
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler. View quote
Laura Mennell
I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character. View quote
Mark Waters
The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade. View quote
Andrew Mwenda
My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control. View quote
Elliot Richardson
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. View quote
Harry Oppenheimer
You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent. View quote
John Brough
An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in. (John J. Sirica)
I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others. View quote
Marya Hornbacher
This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music. View quote
Michael Tippett
Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love. View quote
Mona Simpson
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. View quote
Margaret Young
I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail. View quote
Mario Monicelli
'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside. View quote
Natalie MacMaster
The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them. View quote
Nelson A. Miles
Im hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt peoples feelings, but then Ill blow it 10 minutes later. View quote
Nicholas Haslam
I attempt to surf. Im not as good as anyone else in the water. Im more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there! View quote
Olesya Rulin
The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought. (Peter Fraser)
For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing. View quote
Peter Temple
I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform. View quote
Philippe Petit
I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently. View quote
Pat Travers
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance. View quote
Paul Harris