Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marianne Williamson

Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.

Marianne Williamson

Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'

Marianne Williamson

If a train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s simply because it’s not your train. Don’t try to flag down the conductor and convince them to stop there, even if their own map says that they should just keep going. You may not realize it, but there’s another train trying to come toward you, unable to get into your station because a train that doesn’t even belong there is being delayed there by your intensity.

Mark Leyner

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

Mario Andretti

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again

Marilyn Manson

I don't try to be bad as much as I just am by nature.

Mae Whitman

I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.

Freddie Hubbard

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.

Frank Oz

Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

Christopher Hitchens

Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

Christine Vachon

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

Christina Baldwin

Perhaps we wouldn't eat so much, or smoke, or drink so much if we were paying attention to ourselves. Perhaps we wouldn't talk so much if we were paying attention to each other. All these oral activities are trying to meet a need, and perhaps the greatest need is to be seen and heard.

Christina Baker Kline

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

Chris Pronger

I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room.

Chris O'Donnell

I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

Chris Matthews

I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.

Chris Matthews

I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.

Gilbert Gottfried

I always try to avoid anything that has to do with my life.

Gertrude Stein

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

Gerard Way

The world is gonna try to clean you up, what the f**k you gonna do about it? You're gonna say, "I wanna stay ugly".

Hayao Miyazaki

The principle I adhere to when directing, is that I make good use of everything my staff creates. Even if they make foregrounds that don't quite fit with my backgrounds, I never waste it and try to find the best use for it.

Forest Whitaker

There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.

Forest Whitaker

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.

George Wald

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

George W. Bush

Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.

George Orwell

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

Neal Shusterman

We weren't going anywhere," Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.

Neale Donald Walsch

True abundance has nothing to do with anything that I am having, and everything to do with what I am being. And that when I share my abundance of beingness abundantly with all those whose lives I touch, everything I sought to have came to me automatically, without my even trying to have them.

Neale Donald Walsch

We are caught in a trap, a cycle, in which we keep trying to solve the world's problems at every level - except the level at which the problems exist.

Nate Parker

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

Morrie Schwartz

Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Morgan Freeman

Nobody is trying to save energy. We're trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts.

Moon Bloodgood

I try to be a good, diligent actor.