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Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. -- Tennessee Williams
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. -- Bette Davis
Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure. -- John Haggai
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. -- Charles Simmons
If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "first Attempt In Learning". -- Abdul Kalam
Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out. -- Robert Herrick
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. -- Bette Davis
Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion. -- Richard Diebenkorn
Love to the love tear, even too, same evil, Attempt, without strength and armor, To reach the unreachable star.. -- Jacques Brel
Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it, and you're in it as well. -- Jeff Henderson
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. -- Samuel Johnson
I can't grow a mustache. It's pretty sad if I attempt to. -- Ashton Kutcher
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert H. Schuller
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. -- Robert H. Schuller
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. -- Phyllis Schlafly
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. -- Warren Buffett
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. -- Mike Tyson
The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world. -- Richard Branson
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. -- Emma Goldman
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. -- Christopher Lasch
People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try. -- Kanye West
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
No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. -- Aneurin Bevan
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life. -- Iris Chang
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. -- Charlie Chaplin
Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal. -- Jodi Picoult
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
Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time. -- Brene Brown
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. -- Queen Victoria
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? -- Michael Bloomberg
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. -- Andy Goldsworthy
Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't. -- Kirk Cameron
Familiarity breeds attempt -- NA
Familiarity breeds attempt. -- Jane Ace
There's nothing I won't attempt. -- Tracey Ullman
Most imitators attempt the inimitable. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Either attempt it not, or succeed. -- Ovid
Never attempt to accelerate your progress -- Doug Hepburn
Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies. -- Swami Vivekananda
Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country. -- Brendan Gill
Those who attempt to level never equalize -- Edmund Burke
Making the attempt is what matters most. -- Gary Hopkins
Do not attempt too much at once. -- Aesop
I attempt from love's sickness to fly. -- Henry Purcell
Art is an attempt to integrate evil. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Many attempt to harvest what was never planted. -- Mason Cooley
Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible. -- William Jennings Bryan
Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition. -- Randall Dale Adams
Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward -- Thomas A. Edison
Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism -- Muhammad Iqbal
Parades are man's attempt to make traffic exciting. -- Demetri Martin
Garfield's assassination attempt made the whole nation care. -- Jefferson Davis
[Art is] an attempt to escape from life. -- H. L. Mencken
'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work. -- Dave Sim
Let the attempt be made, at whatever risk. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Desire is an attempt to feel the void. -- Hamza Yusuf
Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit. -- David Starr Jordan
The attempt and not the deed confounds us. -- William Shakespeare
Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope. -- Dan B. Allender
The wind is rising...we must attempt to live. -- Paul Valery
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception. -- Charles Dudley Warner
We must always attempt to lift as we climb -- Angela Davis
Only atheists attempt to comprehend god with their mind. -- Nicolaus Zinzendorf
Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly. -- William James
To achieve the impossible, you must attempt the absurd -- Jon R. Michaelsen
Courage comes through achievement, but also through the attempt. -- Chris Guillebeau
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. -- Pablo Picasso
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. -- Simone Weil
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. -- John Edgar Wideman
If you don't attempt things, you don't attract God. -- Myles Munroe
You have to attempt to be objective about yourself. -- Charles Dance
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. -- Bertrand Russell
It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Art is an attempt to give substance to existence. -- Sondra Horton Fraleigh
To failure at something is an attempt to succeed -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow. -- P. T. Barnum
All human actions are an attempt to meet needs. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them... -- Paulo Freire
Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -- David Richo
Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness. -- Ernest Hemingway
Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them. -- Caroline Myss
What doesn't kill you, usually succeeds in the second attempt. -- Mr. Krabs
All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem. -- James Gilligan
my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me. -- Jane Austen
The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell. -- Karl Popper
I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do -- Robin Wright
Sell the interview before you attempt to sell the product -- Frank Bettger
Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it. -- Terry Rossio
Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden. -- Aesop
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. -- Woodrow Wilson
Life in this world is an attempt to see God. -- Swami Vivekananda
I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt. -- Kenneth Branagh
Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God. -- William Carey
At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution. -- Martin Amis
The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. -- James Agee
Either do not attempt at all or go through with it. -- Ovid
the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental. -- Margaret Deland
Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. -- Brennan Manning
I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music. -- Noel Gallagher
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. -- Thom Gunn
The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose. -- Neil Simon
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. -- Derek Walcott
The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain. -- Gabor Mate
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- Joseph Heller
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. -- Benjamin Tucker
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. -- John Denham
When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators. -- Sigmund Freud
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right! -- Frank Herbert
Miami drivers will attempt to pass you inside a car wash. -- Dave Barry
Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise. -- Kenneth Koch
Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth. -- Roger Zelazny
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again. -- Hermann Hesse
Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities. -- R. D. Laing
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. -- Marge Piercy
Chernobyl is a theme worthy of Dostoevsky, an attempt to justify mankind. -- Svetlana Alexievich
One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure. -- Zig Ziglar

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