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I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.
No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'
Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail with the winds are they are now.
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.
I'm not trying to say that people don't have the right opinion but I have to live my life. And I'm living it and I'm loving it.
Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.
I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.
Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.
I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.
[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.
For the most part, I try to be healthy and eat good things, but if you give me a baguette and some Camembert, I'm gonna eat it.
I think my days of trying outrageous things are over. I'm not looking for trends, I just want to be the best version of myself.
Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.
Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passé by the time you have completed your manuscript.
First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread.
I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.
God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.
Why waste precious time and energy trying to be someone you're not when you can put it to much better use simply being yourself?
Positive thinking isn't ignoring life's problems, it's understanding that Allah can make a way out for you if you sincerely try.
When I am working, I am working. When I am promoting, I am promoting. The rest of the time, I try to stay under the radar a bit.
If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.
A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.
I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.
Virtual Self' was me trying to paint a picture of a very foggy, distorted memory that I had of electronic music on the internet.
I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.
I grew up watching James Bond and Star Wars and I just love that kind of action. I love trying to see if *I* can actually do it.
Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing.
None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's fleeting.
It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do. Don't beat yourself up about it.
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.
I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.
I didn't fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory... Love.
If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.
I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.
Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.
Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.
I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.
Im always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. Thats how I roll.
You see a lot over 30 years and you try to be professional and responsible. A lot of the interviews you do can be very haunting.
I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.
I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?
Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.
I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord. I'm keeping strong at it, just trying to make my walk with faith a little better.
But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.
Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.