We Try Quotes

563 quotes by 479 authors

We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside,… — Diane Ackerman
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest. — Casey Affleck
Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone. — Jo Brand
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our… — Abdallah II
The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it. — Emile M. Cioran
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we… — Maya Angelou
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something. — Maya Angelou
We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely… — Colleen Dewhurst
Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not… — Joyce Meyer
Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them. — C.S. Lewis
We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things. — Steve Alford
We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it. — P. J. Carlesimo
I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them. — Mike Krzyzewski
Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves. — Byron Katie
We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember. — Nhat Hanh
So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will)… — John Green
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything… — Pablo Picasso
What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it… — William Hazlitt

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