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Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.
I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.
If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.
We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.
You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.
My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person.
Don't fight with your thoughts or try to suppress them with your will. This will only frustrate you and bind you to your thoughts even more strongly.
Be independent and don't try to think someone is going to save you or look to someone else to make you happy or look to someone else to complete you.
We're all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.
Editing is just ongoing. I don't count drafts, or know what would fully constitute a draft. But I try to fix as I go. And there's always more to fix.
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.
I kind of put myself in this mindset where time doesn't really exist that much. There is no past or future. I just try to stay really in the present.
I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as much as possible into consideration beforehand.
I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.
I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.
They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.
I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.
How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?
That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.
I may not agree with everything, but our President, just like President [George W.] Bush did, is trying to do his best under difficult circumstances.
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.
I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!
Tobacco farmers would say, "Look, I'm just trying to make a living and feed my family." Nevertheless, tobacco is incredibly harmful and kills people.
My strengths and weaknesses are the same: I've got the willingness and stupidity to try anything. If I think it's even remotely possible, I'll do it.
When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.
Remember that the reader's attention is yours for only a single instant. They will not use up their valuable time trying to figure out what you mean.
I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.
If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though.
The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
As opposed to coming up with something fantastic and trying to sell it to a studio, now all you have to do is get people to believe what you believe.
The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
Mitt Romney was a guest on 'The Tonight Show' on NBC. It's interesting — you have an empty suit trying to please everyone, and then Romney comes out.
Sometimes there is a common threat that can produce a common interest in putting aside all the differences in trying to find a constructive solution.
Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.
God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.
In the saddle again, Fire mulled over the commander's trust, prodding it around, like a candy in her mouth, trying to decide whether she believed it.
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.
I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.
One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.
I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.