Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Miller

When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .

Henri Cartier-Bresson

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

Helen Keller

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

Helen Keller

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

Caterina Fake

You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.

Cate Blanchett

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

Cassandra Clare

They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.

Cassandra Clare

If I might make a suggestion,” said Will. “About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left—

Cassandra Clare

Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.

Cassandra Clare

try me on any day that doesn't end in y - Jace

Cassandra Clare

Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.

George Eliot

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

Right now, we are all just trying to adjust.

Cilla Black

Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!

Ian Mckellen

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

David Dunn

The most important thing that we're trying to do,

They started out trying to do a box-and-one.

Darren Sharper

This could be it. Or he could go one more year. I don't see him trying to go too many more after this.

They were just trying to get through it.

This is about trying new things, getting out of ruts.

Chauncey Billups

It's nothing. Nothing really, just trying to win.

They didn't tell me to, but I was actually trying to keep it away from No. 81,

There was still trepidation (last spring). I was just trying to survive.

There is nothing we can do about it. Someone is just trying to get elected.

Steve Sullivan

You're always trying to improve. When you see everyone else around you bettering themselves, you want to do the same thing.

James E. Faust

We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them.

Jaromir Jagr

I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

Jared Leto

Let's try and fail because through failure you learn

Janet Erskine Stuart

We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.

Janeane Garofalo

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

Janeane Garofalo

I would tell the Democrats in Washington who are trying to be civil with the "bipartisanship" to please stop and let the joker die once and for all, let the agents of chaos hit the pavement, stop picking them up.

Janet Evanovich

Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy. "I'll try," Ziggy said, "but it's a hard habit to break.

Ethan Hawke

One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of subtly changes my work. By the time my obituary is written, I want there to be a great western and a great comedy.