Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis Carroll

Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.

Lewis Carroll

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

Joseph Heller

Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

Joseph Heller

Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?" "Yes, sir, it has." "Then why do you do it?" "To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.

Joseph Campbell

Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

Joseph Campbell

Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

Karl Popper

The defence of democracy must consist in making anti-democratic experiences too costly for those who try them; much more costly than a democratic compromise

Karl Popper

Whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it.

Mother Teresa

Saints are only sinners who keep trying.

Molly Shannon

I try to put my own history in my work.

Molly Shannon

I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.

Monica Ali

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

Minoru Yamasaki

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

Mira Nair

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.

Mike Jackson

I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Try to be surprised by something every day.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way. It is a little like trying to lose weight: everyone knows what it takes, everyone wants to do it, yet it is next to impossible for so many.

Peace Pilgrim

A loving and kindly approach works between individuals, it works between groups and it would work between nations if nations had the courage to try it.

Paula Patton

I try not to have too many opinions; I just marvel at the world we live in.

Paula Radcliffe

The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.

Philip Emeagwali

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

Peter Tosh

Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west, Some stand aside to try their best. Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small. They just can't even find no food at all.

Peter Tosh

Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.

Peter Kreeft

A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

Peter Facinelli

I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.

Peter Bogdanovich

There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to explain the work and so on. And then there's the critics who just wants to make a reputation by attacking. Those are the ones I'm not keen on.

Penelope Cruz

It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.

Pema Chodron

There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.

Pema Chodron

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.