Trying Quotes
22548 quotes by 9956 authors
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People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
— E. W. Howe
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If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.
— Robert Orben
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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
— Derek Walcott
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They smoke cigarettes professionally. The smoke is inhaled very sharply and the teeth are bared.Then the head turns to give you a profile and the…
— Jeffrey Bernard
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Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you - don't do it. Say…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great phenomenon that you…
— Rajneesh
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When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them into our aspiring…
— Sri Chinmoy
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How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred;…
— Sri Chinmoy
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When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel…
— Sri Chinmoy
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I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one.…
— Katharine Hepburn
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The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual…
— Massimo Vignelli
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I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is…
— Pema Chodron
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Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
— Pablo Picasso
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There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try…
— Saint Augustine
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I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that…
— Jerry Falwell
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When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute…
— Randall Terry
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I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what…
— Mike Huckabee
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No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
— Thomas Jefferson
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