Attempt

Famous quotes containing the word attempt:

“Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature’s aid with intellect.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.”
—Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)

“For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)