Trying Quotes - Page 222

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

I like to try and mix diction and experiences.

I think you can talk about anything if the context is correctly arranged. If you set up the context and you bring the audience along carefully enough with you, you can get them to cross the line with you. What I try to do is talk about things that bother me, and I hope that in doing so I bother other people.

I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I am dumb enough to try anything.

Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.

So...have you ever thought about dyeing your hair punk-rocker-chick black? As I'm sure you've heard, I have a thing for brunettes and always avoid blondes." "I've heard. And no." "Too bad. Because you're making me rethink my stance about doing my friends' exes." i snorted, not even trying to hide my...incredulity? Surely I wasn't amused. "Your making me rethink my stance on cold-blooded homicide

If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for our actions, we compare ourselves to the foil of all foils, the Nazi period. It's a quest for moral certainty by saying, "Even if we're not doing great these days, at least we're not the Third Reich." Which can be consoling or alarmist. There's always a present-day agenda behind it.

Government Picking Winners and Losers = Corruption. When government tries to pick winners and losers, the inevitable consequence is corruption. Yes, corruption. If not in a legal sense, certainly in a moral sense

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

Try and stop your thoughts. Be patient and then the kundalini will flow through you and bring about substantial changes in your awareness.

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.

Sometimes it's a little overwhelming to take on other people's stories, that's just the kind of person I am, maybe I'm empathetic to a fault, I internalize a lot, so it can be a bit hard sometimes, but I understand that that's what they need, and if I can do it, then I'll do it, but if I can't, then I'll try to take a knee.

When you're a man you try and be macho.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

I just like to be dangerous with what I try to do.

I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to... I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.

I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day.

As soon as they say I don't sound as good as my old stuff, I tell them, "I would never sound as good as I first sounded, because you guys didn't know who I was. Being that I'm in rotation, you guys are getting used to the sound, so now you expect another track and another track, but it never happens again, no matter how hard I try."

In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.

I constantly try to humble myself; if you don't, I'm sure the game is going to find a way to humble you.