(551 quotes found)
“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
“We attempt to be accepting of others. Sometimes we aren't, but at least we try.”
Nicholas Sparks
“He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.”
Joseph Heller
“The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality”
Heywood C. Broun
“That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche”
Dennis Miller
“Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious-that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.”
Dan Brown
“What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?”
Robert H. Schuller
“The attempt and not the deed confounds us.”
William Shakespeare
“From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. . . . In the process, the US caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.”
William Blum
“In the process of trial and error, Our failed attempts are meant to destroy arrogance and provoke humility.”
Master Jin Kwon
