Trying Quotes - Page 171

Traders take a good system and destroy it by trying to make it into a perfect system.

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

I regard each sentence as a little wheel... Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a very small one in such a way that the big one, turning slowly, will make the small one spin so fast that it hums. Very tricky, that.

The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.

We are always just trying to be strong and yet in touch with our bodies and the only way you can really do that is to believe in yourself because that’s all that you have.

You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

What is illusion? M.: To whom is the illusion? Find it out. Then illusion will vanish. Generally people want to know about illusion and do not examine to whom it is. It is foolish. Illusion is outside and unknown. But the seeker is considered to be known and is inside. Find out what is immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distant and unknown.

The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.

In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.

I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.

If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

But just because it burns doesn't mean you're gonna die. You've gotta get up and try, try, try.

Gotta get up and try.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.