Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hillary Clinton

Remember what Teddy Roosevelt did. Yes, he took on what he saw as the excesses in the economy, but he also stood against the excesses in politics. He didn't want to unleash a lot of nationalist, populistic reaction. He wanted to try to figure out how to get back into that balance that has served America so well over our entire nationhood.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

Evelyn Glennie

I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

Evelyn Underhill

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it. Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.

Eva Longoria

I'm not a matchmaker. I'm a horrible matchmaker. I always try. I'm not very good.

Evan Esar

If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.

Eugene Ionesco

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

Eugene Ionesco

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

Erno Rubik

I want to try to keep my life the same.

Ernst Haas

A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.

Ernest Hemingway

If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.

Ernest Hemingway

I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

Ernest Hemingway

Before you quit, you have to try

Ernest Hemingway

But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone.

Ernest Hemingway

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

Ezra Koenig

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

Etty Hillesum

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

Jez Butterworth

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

Jez Butterworth

A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.

Jhumpa Lahiri

They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.

Godfrey Reggio

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

Goldie Hawn

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

Harriet Lerner

Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to stop trying to be helpful.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

Haley Joel Osment

I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

Greil Marcus

Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.

Homer

Trying is the first step toward failure.

Hope Solo

I try to live my life one day at a time, and if I look too far in advance, I get really stressed.

Ian Bogost

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

Ian Bogost

Every now and then if you try, you can discover something new.

Hugh Prather

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

Hugh Bonneville

I always try to look for the best in most places.