Trying Quotes - Page 220

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

Don't try to blame the pain on anyone. Blaming others won't erase the pain.

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.

They [China] have indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

To me it's just going for the moment that counts. Sometimes, I'll have all the elements there, and I like to play and push something, and to me, in the end, you do achieve things that you're not aware of in the beginning, even though you're there trying to get them.

I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear.

It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.

The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it.

Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free

If someone's trying to intimidate me, male or female, I don't respect them enough to be intimidated.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.

We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.

Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

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.

Wear something you feel gorgeous in and don't try too hard; it's much sexier when it appears effortless. Clothes that don't fit, or don't fit the wearer's personality, don't help.

I don't think anyone loses by trying to be loyal to their dreams.

As an actor, I usually try and keep my motivation within the context of what the character is going through.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.