Attempt Quotes

You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future... It's a big relief to discover what you are best-suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus. You can just jettison all this useless floundering around, attempting to do stuff that's really not in your range, and focus. - Richard Hell

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must be willing to set your feet on the ground in China in order to do business here. Never, ever attempt the 'remote control' type [of management]. - Peter Chen

You know, of course, that they have called this boy my downfall? You all know that on the night I lost my powers and my body, I tried to kill him. His mother died in the attempt to save him and unwittingly provided him with a protection I admit I had not foreseen.... I could not touch the boy. - Voldemort

You know what pressure is put on Belarus, ranging from open blackmail to attempted interference in our internal affairs from the West, and from small provocations to threat of extremist rallies from the opposition. - Alexander Lukashenko

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran in. - Ernest Hemingway

You just have to deal with it and move forward. I've made my attempts and still am going to try to. I can't change someone else's mindset on me. - Todd Bertuzzi

You have to be at best only half-aware of what you're trying... if you know what you're looking for, there's no attempt to do some real work. - Chris Morris

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself. - Charles Dance

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. - Leopold Von Ranke