Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.

-Gill, Brendan
  Of Cromwell's settlement of Scots in the north of Ireland.  A NewYork Life.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

-Heller,Joseph
  OfYossarian. Catch-22, ch.3.

Conversation is more often likely to be an attempt at deliberate evasion, deliberate confusion, rather than communication.We're all cheats and liars, really.

-Jones,James
  Interview in the Paris Review, Winter.