Trying Quotes
22548 quotes by 9956 authors
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If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has…
— Steven Weinberg
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During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon…
— Mark Twain
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A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living…
— William Baldwin
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An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.....
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual…
— Albert Einstein
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I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk…
— Ani DiFranco
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Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots…
— C.S. Lewis
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The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought…
— Gilbert Highet
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Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
— H. L. Mencken
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I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.
— Christopher Hitchens
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I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.
— Gianni Versace
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If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the…
— Diane von Furstenberg
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I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had…
— Vera Wang
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It was a long time ago, we were in the office, and we had finished work exhausted. A friend of a friend said 'Hey, take…
— Giorgio Armani
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If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter…
— Donna Mills
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Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have been riding on…
— Rajneesh
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To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you miserable, nobody can…
— Rajneesh
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By meditation we try to slow down the mechanism of projections. If the mechanism is slowed down and even for a single moment you begin…
— Rajneesh
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