Trying Quotes - Page 94

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.

So many people are close-minded. They aren't open with themselves. I want to be that punch in the face that says, "Who cares!" The more people try to hide sexuality, the more it's going to be brought up.

Motocross might be more dangerous because it's hard to tame the machine sometimes. Wrestling, you're dealing with yourself and your own body, but when you're trying to tame the machine, that sh*t can be kind of hard sometimes.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

My entire purpose is trying to be the best in the game, and if that exudes beauty too, that's pretty powerful.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies have found that when doctors genuinely encouraged women to have VBACs, most of them did, and when they said nothing or acted neutral, most women didn't. Finally, when obstetricians discouraged VBAC in women who wanted to try it, none of them did.

When you try, God is there and you get the grace you need to get you through.

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience.

I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.

Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.

Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.

I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.

[My mother] tried so hard to make life easy for us. Those are the things that forced me to try to do something different and when this Movement came to Mississippi I still feel it is one of the greatest things that ever happened because only a person living in the State of Mississippi knows what it is like to suffer; knows what it is like to be hungry; knows what it is like to have no clothing to wear.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.