(551 quotes found)
“I think that's a really easy thing to emote over, ... But I think when you make an attempt to be more introspective, I think you can be just as emotionally jarring and even scarier because all of the sudden you're not pointing at someone else. You're pointing at yourself. And you're like, wow, this is me who's doing all this.”
Pete Wentz
“The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.”
William Carlos Williams
“I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.”
Virgil
“Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.”
Horatio Nelson
“When they tell me I'm too old to do something, I attempt it immediately.”
Pablo Picasso
“Not all those who are attempting to conduct successful businesses are profiteers”
Calvin Coolidge
“This documentary is the first attempt since 1957 to revisit the thoughts and ideas of Albert Schweitzer using the technological tools of today. It is also an attempt to make Schweitzer understandable to the youth of today using a medium through which they are used to receiving and processing information.”
David Ives
“A careful physician, before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?”
Carl Sagan
“Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.”
John Updike
