Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Baggini

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

Julian Baggini

The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

Julian Assange

Wikileaks has - we specialize in bringing the First Amendment to the world, and we were always very surprised one of our biggest battles would be trying to bring it to the United States under an Obama administration.

Julian Assange

WikiLeaks is literally the worst place in the world to try and plant a false story.

Ken Kesey

He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered.

Ken Kesey

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

Katrina Bowden

I try not to eat too much dairy or gluten.

Kristanna Loken

I just try to take it as it comes. One autograph at a time.

Kirsty Gallacher

I also try to eat as much raw food and clean food as possible.

Kim Harrison

Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard.” - Al to Rachel

Kevin Plank

Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!

Kevin Ollie

I try to be an example and live as Christ-like as I can.

Kevin O'Leary

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

Keri Russell

Cheryl [Hines] and I sat through two screenings at the Sundance Film Festival and during the second one, we said to each other: "You know, we don't have to get sad about this. Let's try to enjoy this. Let's just watch it. It's a happy movie [Waitress]."

Ice T

The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.

Ice Cube

We have to step up as adults and try to guide our youth.

Ice Cube

Once you figure out what your own thing is it's all about trying to develop shows, programs that can, I guess, enhance what you already have and what you can add to Hollywood.

Jack Osbourne

Diet is a big thing. I am a firm believer in you are what you eat. I juice a lot, I try and stick to a Paleo Diet. At its core, I look at MS as inflammation, so I try and eliminate foods that cause inflammation: dairy, gluten, grains.

Ishmael Reed

I try to do what has never been done before.

Iris Dement

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

Irvin D. Yalom

Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.

Imtiaz Ali

I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

Ilka Chase

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Ina Garten

Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.

Idina Menzel

You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

Idries Shah

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

Idries Shah

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Gloria Vanderbilt

When I was photographed, I didn't feel I was acting. I just felt I was being photographed. It sort of taught me things about myself that I didn't know and was trying to find out.

Harry Reid

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

Harry S Truman

When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right.

Harold E. Varmus

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

J. M. Coetzee

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

J. K. Rowling

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was such a mess at this point, what - what was the worst that could happen? Everyone turn me down? Big deal.