We Try Quotes

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The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because… — Douglas Rushkoff
We aren't particularly talented. We try harder! — Joe Strummer
To plot is to live. [â€¦] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise… — Don DeLillo
It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called… — Madeleine L'Engle
We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot… — Ayn Rand
In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be â€œperfectâ€ men and women in at least this one… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we… — Paulo Coelho
Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say… — C.S. Lewis
We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is… — Lyall Watson
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes… — Martin Luther
I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also… — Joan Didion
Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. â€¦Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy… — John Bradshaw
God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him,… — Sidney Sheldon
Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us… — C.S. Lewis
If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we… — Greg Mortenson
Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of… — Banana Yoshimoto
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and… — Pope Benedict XVI
Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we… — Orson Scott Card
Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum. — Joe Orton

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