One Tries Quotes

32 quotes by 28 authors

All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like… — Truman Capote
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one… — Mahatma Gandhi
An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it. — Emile M. Cioran
Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living. — John Cage
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything… — Albert Camus
It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be helpless as a… — John Speed
A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in… — Vivian Gornick
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. — Cyril Cusack
I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity. — Federico Fellini
Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes… — Chogyam Trungpa
For us Christians, love of neighbour springs from love of God; and it is its most limpid expression. Here one tries to love one's neighbour,… — Pope Francis
Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as… — Peter Kropotkin
I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting — Ransom Riggs
America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you… — D. H. Lawrence
One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really… — Janet Suzman
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to… — Alfred P. Sloan
Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We… — Linus Pauling
If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck — Albert Einstein
[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and… — Michel Foucault
When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to… — Chogyam Trungpa

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