Trying Quotes - Page 48

I try not to take people who haven't really thought out what they're doing too seriously. I try not to let them get in the way of what I feel I need to do.

I try to just focus on the love and my family. That's what I'm focussed on every single day.

I'm not trying to fit in with nobody. I'm just me.

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

Trying to get today's Republicans to accept basic facts is like trying to get your dog to take a pill. You have to feed them the truth wrapped in a piece of baloney, hold their snouts shut and stroke their throats. and even then, just when you think they've swallowed it, they spit it out on the linoleum.

I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people.

I try my best to be honest. A lot of the greats before me did the same and what you come to find out is that, when you have the opportunity to share your words with millions of people, you're not the only one who had that experience. That's the beauty in it.

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

It seems like every time I break up with someone they try to take all my friends. It sucks because your friends are the people you need the most when you are in pain.

Do not try to know the truth, for knowledge by the mind is not true knowledge. But you can know what is not true-which is enough to liberate you from the false. The idea that you know what is true is dangerous, for it keeps you imprisoned in the mind. It is when you do not know, that you are free to investigate. And there can be no salvation, without investigation, because non investigation is the main cause of bondage.

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.

Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive.... Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

If you don't think God's love for the unlovable is amazing, go try to love someone who hates you for a day. See if that helps.

Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!

If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail...Say what you are. Not what you would like to be. Not what you have to be. Just say what you are. And what you are is good enough.