Trying Quotes - Page 82

Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.

You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

I just try to keep healthy more so than trying to be thin.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

When you find yourselves a little gloomy, look around you and find somebody that is in a worse plight than yourself; go to him and find out what the trouble is, then try to remove it with the wisdom which the Lord bestows upon you; and the first thing you know, your gloom is gone, you feel light, the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, and everything seems illuminated.

Perhaps my number one rule is: Don't try to make a profit on a bad trade, just try to find the best place to get out.

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?

I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.

You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder.

I do love the feeling of a big win. But you don't have to have a World Series ring to be a winner. A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished. Being able to get the most from their ability. That's what characterizes a winner.

Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try.

I just try to just roll with the punches. I mean, once the team pretty much starts closing out, just try to get in attack mode, and at the same time, try to find my teammates. It's kind of hard, hitting the shots I was hitting, to try and pass the ball, but you've got to figure out a way.

Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus." Saiman said dryly. "Thank you for reminding me." "Always happy to oblige.

Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

I like things that are never one way. Usually, emotionally, I make the films based on a type of energy. I try to work with things that are more difficult to articulate. And so, that's more of a feeling. And so, the things that have attracted me are more of the things that are morally complicated or emotionally complicated.