We Try Quotes

563 quotes by 479 authors

We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering.… — Arundhati Roy
The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and… — Janet Fitch
We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts. — James Patterson
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we… — C.S. Lewis
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to… — Karen Marie Moning
None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without… — Lauren DeStefano
Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and… — Masashi Kishimoto
Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict. — Laurell K. Hamilton
The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is… — Elisabeth Eaves
We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save… — Parker J. Palmer
Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of… — Andre Gide
You see, Dash -- I was never the girl in your head. And you were never the boy in my head. I think we both… — David Levithan
He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when… — Oscar Wilde
What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is… — Dean Koontz
Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods. Their ways are not meant for the humble likes of us. But we've decoded some of… — Darren Shan
The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence. — Charles Simic
We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise.… — Yukio Mishima
I donâ€™t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. Itâ€™s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves… — Deb Caletti

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