We Try Quotes

563 quotes by 479 authors

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show… — Yoko Ono
I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try… — Rachael Ray
We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't… — Ann Richards
As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book. — Andy Rooney
A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we… — Jonathan Sacks
It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong.… — Sharon Salzberg
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the… — May Sarton
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. — George Saunders
I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we… — Kevin Smith
I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in… — Bruce Springsteen
We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that. — Layne Staley
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for… — Ben Stein
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the… — Mother Teresa
Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say… — Carrie Underwood
There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close… — Eddie Vedder
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. — Alan Watts
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. — Alan Watts
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and… — Rowan Williams
Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it. — will.i.am
No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only… — Ravi Zacharias

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