Trying Quotes - Page 186

I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.

Too often, parents force their kids into becoming something they want them to become rather than trying unpack the treasure chest God wants them to become.

Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail with the winds are they are now.

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

I try to get away. Its very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things Ive had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet.

I just try to show everything I represent and I represent God so I want to put that in my music.

Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.

Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!

You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. Songwriting is my gift from God.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.

We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.

The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

Don't ever be someone you're not. We are all that we are, so why try to change that?

I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.

I like to wear classic silhouettes and add a punch to it. I'll wear a high-waist legging and a super-crop top or a see-through top with a nice bra underneath. And I just always try to mix it up with heels or something.

There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.

In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.

I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova... All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing.

As we learned a bitter lesson with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS, we are trying to take every possible measure so that the Wii U will have a successful launch.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.