Trying Quotes - Page 31

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

By fully tuning in to the now moment in your life, you will discover that you always have enough to enjoy every moment of your life. The only reason you have not been happy every instant is that you have been dominating your consciousness with thoughts about something you don't have- or trying to hold on to something that you do have but which is no longer appropriate in the present flow of your life.

Its kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

I don't like it when a girl tries too hard to act cute or pretty.

I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.

I try to keep my private life private.

The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to spread the notion that the UN gathering is really the work of radicals and atheists bent on destroying our families.

I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.

When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

We're like the Three Musketeers, searching for truth and justice and the American way.: Glitch snorted. "More like the Three Blind Mice, stumbling around trying to find a hunk of cheese in the dark.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

No one's perfect. And we've all made our mistakes and you just have to live with them and try to not make them again.

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.

You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home, walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.

I have no problem with whatever the next big look is. Just don't try and tell me that only one look is beautiful.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.