Trying Quotes - Page 318

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations we should do so with compassion.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.

Imagine a world in which you had Saddam Hussein, who had the capacity to make a weapon of mass destruction, who was paying suiciders to kill innocent life. Imagine what the world would be like with him in power. The idea is to try to help change the Middle East. Part of the reason we went into Iraq was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction. It turns out he didn't, but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction.

My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you're really doing during that time is hyper-focusing on the individual pieces - trying to make each one sit up and really do some surprising work.

There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.

I said to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.

Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured.

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.

Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

Try everything that can be done.... Learn your own possibilities.

We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.