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To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.
It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth - to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.
What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.
Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.
Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world.
There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.
There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.
There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.
I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.
I try to approach making movies in a way that it's about the making of them and not the result of them, if that makes sense.
My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.
It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.
Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot.
I think that I'm trying to hopefully change my children's ideas about what is possible, and about what is possible for them.
You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.
In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.
People are like, "Oh, I want to make your eyes almond." I don't have almond eyes! Why are you trying to change my eye shape?
The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.
We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.
All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.
I can't be someone I'm not. I try to be a warrior on the court, but where I come from, being macho doesn't get you anywhere.
You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.
I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic.
Trying to be able to have, let's say, more than three partners was absolutely impossible, at least for my own relationships.
EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.
The better your base is, and the more you know from experience, the better off you'll be when you try and make the big move.
I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.
Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
It's really hard not to think too much. If I try to control the sled too much so that I have perfect lines, I'm really slow.
I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.
I try not to get caught up on how cool I am. That way nothing ever gets done. I'm always thinking about what I haven't done.
When watering your plants, try to talk to them - say something like, Hold it right there and then shoot them with water gun.
The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.
I actually do a lot of Pilates and try to hike every day that I'm home. Also, I dance SO much in my shows and at rehearsals!
I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.
Everyone should try no gluten for a week! The change in your skin, physical and mental health is amazing. You won't go back!
One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite the same.
Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.