Trying Quotes - Page 16

• Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature - one whose morphe (form) is theos - God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them.

  Huston Smith

  Heart, Eye, Faith Religion

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• I never try and sound like Sabbath.

  Geezer Butler

  Sound, Sabbath

  "It's Just Honest Music". Interview with David Marchese, www.popmatters.com. July 13, 2005.

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• For girls it raises your testosterone, so I try to have as much sex as possible before I fight actually. Not with like everybody, I don't put out like a Craigslist ad or anything, but if I got a steady I'm going to be like 'yo, fight time's coming up.

  Ronda Rousey

  Girl, Sex, Fighting

  "Ronda Rousey’s Sex Strategy: ‘I Try To Have As Much Sex As Possible Before I Fight’" by Kavitha A. Davidson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2012.

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• For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Believe, Going Away, Overcoming

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• And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

  Thomas Keneally

  Writing, Mind, Crafts

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• Things happen in NFL games. I don't try to dwell on it. I try to say, It happened. Let's move onto the next one.

  Devin Hester

  Moving, Nfl Games, Next

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• I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

  Bindi Irwin

  Animal, Earth, Messages

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• Basketball's so much like life: if something's going great, you wait a minute, it will change. If something's going bad, you wait a minute, it will change. So I try to play things on such an even keel, knowing that things are going to change. You take the good with the bad; you don't get too excited, you don't get too down and sometimes that's the hardest thing in the world to do when you're in the midst of it, but that's the best way to handle it.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Play, Knowing

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• Im just trying to be positive. I like the guys (Im) around. Even though were not at the record Id like to be, even after a loss, guys are mad, but then we have fun and you move on. They look up to me. Ive been around eight years. A lot of these guys were in junior high or high school when I came into the NBA. I see how much of an influence I am off the court. I try to be careful how I approach things on and off the court, because I know these guys are watching.

  Paul Pierce

  Fun, Moving, School

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• I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, Onions, Lasts

  "Karl Lagerfeld On His Hair, Women In Thongs & The Last Time He Cried" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2011.

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• We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.

  Donatella Versace

  Believe, Style, Copying

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• I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Artist, Rivers, Next

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• Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

  Maria Weston Chapman

  Selfish, Men, Rights

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• If George Bush [Jr.] decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last in office for about 15 minutes. In fact if President Bush were to try that now even I would think that he ought to be impeached. You can't get away with that sort of thing in this democracy.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Thinking, Iran, Office

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• I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

  Howard Nemerov

  Kids, Term Paper, Doing Me

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• I’m constantly criticised for being too skinny. I’m trying to gain weight but my body won’t let it happen. What people don’t understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat, it’s not a nice feeling.

  Kendall Jenner

  Nice, People, Feelings

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• A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Writing, Want, Take Me

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• I try to write the most embarrassing thing I can think of.

  John Wieners

  Writing, Thinking, Embarrassing

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• Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Lying, Organised Religion, Organised

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• If anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate [sic] or stop Scientology or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday-school teacher. There is probably no limit on what I would do to safeguard Man's only road to freedom against persons who ... seek to stop Scientology or hurt Scientologists.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Teacher, Hurt, School

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• My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  People, Goal, States

  "Robert Anton Wilson : Searching For Cosmic Intelligence". Interview with Jeffrey Elliot, 1980.

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• Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Work Out, Forever, Everything Works Out

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• The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because he knows that it stands him in good stead with his superiors if he is constantly sending up to them aspirants who 'make good.' He therefore never tries to hold back a promising pupil, because he has no need to fear that pupil, if allowed to penetrate into the Mysteries, would spy out the nakedness of the land; he will rather bring back a report of its exceeding richness, and thereby confirm the statements of his teacher and spur his fellow pupils to yet greater eagerness.

  Dion Fortune

  Teacher, School, Men

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Esoteric Orders And Their Work”, p.52, Dion Fortune

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• I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it sometimes appears. My subjects are also often playful: I cannot refrain from demonstrating the nonsensicalness of some of what we take to be irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure to deliberately mix together objects of two and three dimensions, surface and spatial relationships, and to make fun of gravity.

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Fun, Two

  "Escher on Escher: exploring the infinite". Book by J. W. Vermeulen, H. N. Abrams, 1989.

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• Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the crystallographers, have had considerable influence on my work of the last twenty years. The laws of the phenomena around us--order, regularity, cyclical repetition, and renewals--have assumed greater and greater importance for me. The awareness of their presence gives me peace and provides me with support. I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Years, Law

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