Famous Quotes & Sayings

Enid Blyton

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

Emo Philips

I've always kind of pushed the envelope in terms of trying to get away with things no one else was going near. I always thought of myself like a mouse trying to get cheese that no one else could get without getting their tail snipped off.

James Comey

The lawyers doing the sorting for Hillary Clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her e-mails, as we did for those available to us; instead, they relied on header information and used search terms to try to find all work-related e-mails among the reportedly more than 60,000 total e-mails remaining on Secretary Clinton's personal system in 2014.

James Cook

Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.

James Baker

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president

James Altucher

Hold your breath. Try holding your breath for just thirty seconds. That’s all it takes. Try it right now while you are looking at this line. Now…on the twenty-ninth second, do any opinions matter?

Jake Epstein

I try to keep my private life private.

Frederick W. Smith

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Jon Ronson

Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.

Jon Krakauer

the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.

Johnny Weir

Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.

Johnny Damon

I try to walk around with a smile on my face.

Johnny Damon

I'm relaxed at the plate. I'm not trying to do too much.

John Zorn

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

Johnny Cash

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

Luc Montagnier

That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

Louis Sachar

But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

John Clare

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

Lupe Fiasco

You would never know if you could ever be, If you never try, you would never see.

Luis Gonzalez

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

John Cena

I literally wake up and try to tackle every day the best I can and do my best to try to make life as productive and positive as I can.

John Boorman

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

John Boyne

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

John Boyne

. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.

We're trying to get out of a rut.

We're trying to get her in the mid-90's. If she can get up there, I think that can get her to state.

Orson Scott Card

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

Orson Scott Card

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

Robert Kiyosaki

Life isn’t fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don’t need it to be fair. Go make life unfair to your advantages.

Maria Mitchell

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

These are important precedents here that we're trying to get at, ... And I think there's just confusion.

Steve Squyres

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.