Quotes About Second Attempt

#1. Life was beautiful, but it was also painful. People fail, a few get up, but there's never a guarantee that their second attempt will work out.

J.C. Reed

#2. Don't live your life like an attempt, because if you fail there is no second attempt.

Amit Kalantri

#3. Excuse me?" I asked. I always say "excuse me" even though I heard perfectly well what the person said. I feel that by saying "excuse me," I'm giving them a chance to realize they're being an asshole, and they can change their attitude for the second attempt.

Jen Mann

#4. I need another drink!" I said as a second attempt to change the subject.
"Shots!" America yelled.
Shepley rolled his eyes. "Oh, yeah. That's what you need, another shot.

Jamie McGuire

#5. What doesn't kill you, usually succeeds in the second attempt.

Mr. Krabs

#6. Taking a deep breath, he made a second attempt. "It's so hard to let Claire go. Romantics are forever people.

Thomas Allen

#7. I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

Artie Lange

#8. I asked him at the clambake in 2001, at the writers' retreat Xanadu, what he'd done during the war, which he called 'civilization's second unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide,

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast as in California, and in none of them, perhaps, are the evil effects so manifest.

Henry George

#10. Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.

Ann Coulter

#11. We've seen Second Amendment enthusiasts take action against abortion doctors. There's an attempt to paint us as villains in the same way.

Jane Mayer

#12. It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.

Gerd Von Rundstedt

#13. This is the second time she has turned me down, and with an apparent attempt to affront me. How does she manage to disappoint and intrigue simultaneously?

Noe

#14. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and out-of-date distractions.

Thomas Ligotti

#15. Those who fly on the first attempt are the lucky, those succeed on the second or third attempt are truly blessed with determination and do not see their lack of success as failure.

Self quote

Patrick Meservier

#16. As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, ... The people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear arms.

Tench Coxe

#17. Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.

Edwin Newman

#18. Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

Michael Haneke

#19. An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria.
("The Chymist")

Thomas Ligotti

#20. 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

#21. Damn it,Izzy, I told you, keeping a low profile is an essential part of every job."
"I was trying!"
"And breaking someone's arm by second period? That was your attempt at trying?

Rachel Hawkins

#22. Mary Jane Clairmont, the second wife of William Godwin, and Mary Shelley's stepmother, had the idea of bringing out French fairy tales for children in an attempt to make some much needed money for the family (she has not been given her due by biographers, in my view).

Marina Warner

#23. The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer.

David Leitch

#24. We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists.

Patrick Henry

#25. Faith is nothing more than a watered-down attempt to accept someone else's insight as your own. Belief is the psychic equivalent of an article of second-hand clothing, worn out and passed down.

Damien Echols

#26. Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Voltaire

#27. Always best to start with violence and attempt communication second. People reacted more favorably when they knew you would snuff a few lives to get what you wanted... or for no reason whatsoever.

Michael R. Fletcher

#28. We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers ... one saying to the other: you don't know what you are talking about! The second one says: what do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you? What do you mean by know?

Richard Feynman