Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

C. S. Lewis

You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Alain de Botton

Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.

Adam Grant

People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people.

Cornel West

If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.

David Otunga

Im always trying to push the envelope and go with a different hairstyle that youre not going to see on anybody else. I have a really good grade of hair, and I can do a lot of different things with it.

Colin Greenwood

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

Cliff Floyd

I'm always trying to get my mind at peace. I know I hit my best when everything is chill.

Dylan McDermott

I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel like.

Dana Spiotta

I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

Anthony Head

Ctors are always trying to cry and people are actually trying not to cry.

Anthony Jeselnik

Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.

Bootsy Collins

But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.

Breckin Meyer

With a sequel you're always trying to get bigger and better.

Eartha Kitt

I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy.

David Icke

If you look at the way society is structured , it is structured to keep people overwhelmingly in a state of fear and always trying to survive, in terms of physically, in terms of terror, in terms of financially, the credit crunch, rising food prices; all this is survive, survive, survive.

David Duchovny

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.

Bill Maher

To me, being brave is an element that is so important with stand-up comedy. It's not essential. There are many comics who were just funny, and that's fine, too. But that's never been what I was trying to do in comedy. I was always trying to do something that involved not pandering to the audience.

Carl Andre

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

Callum Keith Rennie

I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.

Scott Speedman

I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.

Soleil Moon Frye

I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.

Skrillex

I'm always on tour, so I'm always trying new tracks out live before they're released. That's more necessity than anything, because I don't get a proper chance to sit in a studio and work on tracks like other producers do.

Philip Larkin

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

Lisa Kudrow

I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh

James Rosenquist

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

Nicole Krauss

The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.

Marianne Moore

The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.

Tatiana Maslany

As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.

Robert Anthony

Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

Tibor Kalman

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.