Attempts

Famous quotes containing the word attempts:

    Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.
    Calvin Trillin (b. 1940)

    Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good in some particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)