Trying Quotes - Page 115

You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of Glory days - yeah, they'll pass you by, Glory days - in the wink of a young girl's eye.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

You're supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you're trying to going up, you're trying to pull someone up at the same time.

We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.

No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.

No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.

If we do not try, we will not know.

You have to emote much more to get what you're trying to get across to come through a quarter inch of latex that's superglued to your face.

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more.

I had a certain kind of disassociation from the other kids because I had more interest in sociology, ideas and trying to communicate those ideas to the kids around me.

The bank...is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!

What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

I have never gone into a picture without first studying my characterization from all angles. I make a study of the fellow's life and try to learn everything about him, including the conditions under which he came into this world, his parentage, his environment, his social status, and the things in which he is interested. Then I attempt to get his mental attitude as much as possible.