Trying Quotes - Page 276

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

I'm going to try to fit in where I can and play the way I can.

Never try to fix other people. God does not need to do a bank shot off your lips.

You know, those kinds of things in your life...movies you try to work out your issues, then you realize those kinds of traumatic issues just stay with you forever and they just keep reoccurring, and no matter how hard I try to get them out of my head, they just sort of stay there.

We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed with theirs. Humans cannot move at the same rate as machines. When we attempt to, we lose contact with our own humanness.

Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.

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.

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us

Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.

I try to reach out to my idols.

I like to keep a uniform - wear a blazer, try to keep the same colour pants; very tailored, very fitted but still edgy.

Concentrate on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I recognized the emptiness and futility of trying to "combat" anti-Semitism.

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.