Trying Quotes - Page 137

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.

Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard.

The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies or problems...I have embarked on this geometric problem again and again over the years, trying to throw light on different aspects each time. I cannot imagine what my life would be like if this problem had never occurred to me; one might say that I am head over heels in love with it, and I still don't know why.

I don't have an image that I'm trying to like portray. I'm just being me.

For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.

I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

Imbalance or abnormity is never so dangerous as when it is widely perceived or accepted as being normal. The worst thing you can do is not to try.

I speak to everybody. I'm one of those kind of artists that I'm cool with everybody. If they [fans] want to meet me, it's cool. That's as far as it goes. But I'm the cool artist. I shake everybody's hand, try to sign all the autographs, take pictures when I can.

It’s not about trying to change the world, it’s about trying to not be changed by it

If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, When Allah loves a people, He tries them.

If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.

Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

I admit I have no forgiveness. If anyone is ever rude to me, however much they may try to make up, I can't bring myself to re-establish the old [connection]. And when they drop me, I have a sense of relief.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.

A new yogi doesn't handstand on their first try, and a new teacher doesn't start out as a headliner. Be patient, and trust it's all going to add up and unfold in due time.

I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

I try to give everyone options because no matter what you think you're going to wear, what you actually put on depends totally on how you feel.