Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.

Harry Vardon

Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn

Hanley Ramirez

I'm just going to try to hit the ball hard. If it's going out of the park, that'll be OK.

Hank Azaria

Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.

Fred Rogers

There's always someone who is trying to help.

Fred Rogers

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

Marianne Faithfull

I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.

Mike Colter

As professionals, we just try to keep the jokes to a minimum, when we're in a certain situation. When we're not doing that, we're joking.

Nicholas D. Kristof

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

Ned Vizzini

They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

Nathan Wolfe

If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

Naomi Campbell

In charity, every little bit works. You can't change the world. You can't do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can.

Nadia Giosia

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

Naguib Mahfouz

The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

Miuccia Prada

I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.

Mitt Romney

I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.

Mike O'Malley

I'm just trying to age as ungracefully as I can in front of the nation.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you dont always realize when youre younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Mike Piazza

I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

Publilius Syrus

You don't know what you can do until you try.

Publilius Syrus

No one know what he can do till he tries.

Publilius Syrus

If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Pierre Omidyar

Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

Jean Rhys

I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.

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.