We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
Anish Kapoor

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.
John Desmond Bernal

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
Charles Keating

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.
Richard Branson

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller

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

What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.
Elbridge Gerry

Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.
Bill Dixon

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
Maude Adams

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
Sarah Jessica Parker

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
Pierre Nicole

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel Johnson

With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
Ted Lindsay

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.
Ben E. King

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.
John Brough

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
Carlisle Floyd

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
Felix Adler

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