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

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

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.
Robert Cormier