Trying Quotes - Page 15

My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.

Never say 'I could have done that,' because you didn't.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is.

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

If you think the cause of your problem is 'out there,' you'll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.

I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?'

When I came to Mogadishu...here was one road built by the Italians. If you try to force me to stand down, I will leave the city as I found it. I came to power with a gun; only the gun can make me go.

When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

I try not to waste time feeling bad for myself, because when I do, there's no room for happiness.

Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.

I just try to stay around the same people, stick around the same group.