Trying Quotes - Page 33

• I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.

  Carol Matas

  Strong, Past, Enough

  Carol Matas (1997). “After the War”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Get your mind unbound and free; and then from the loosest, highest, best place you have, with the fastest and most humorous mind you can get together, you can reach out and make a try at understanding Spirit.

  Stephen Gaskin

  Humorous, Understanding, Mind

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• Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.

  Adrian Tan

  Long, Life Is, Complicated

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• Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.

  H. M. Tomlinson

  Light, Want, Discernment

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• A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

  Fred Brooks

  Independent, Data, Principles

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• The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, When Allah loves a people, He tries them.

  Leila Aboulela

  People, Prophet Muhammad, Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him

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• I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and not to hang around waiting for it. Inspiration is merely a pretty phrase for the zest to work. And it can be cultivated by anyone who has the patience to try. Inspiration that will not come at its possessor's summons is like a dog that cannot be trained to obey. The sooner both are gotten rid of, the better.

  Albert Payson Terhune

  Dog, Inspiration, Zest

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• Before you start trying to work out which direction the property market is headed, you should be aware that there are markets within markets.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Work Out, Should, Real Property

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• How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

  Sonia Johnson

  Inspirational, Falling In Love, Wish

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• You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites
  you and what scares you everyday, not by
  trying to find your passion.

  Derek Sivers

  Passion, Everyday, Scare

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• Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

  Derek Sivers

  Real, Attention, Pay

  Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.64, Penguin

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• Entertainers have no brain...I get frustrated when I hear things like that from people. We have different goals. We have our own ways. I try to do the best I can, but still.

  Seohyun

  People, Goal, Frustrated

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• If you think that hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs

  Red Adair

  Thinking, Hiring, Ifs

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• Every song youre trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that Im really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where youre from.

  Rodney Atkins

  Song, Different, Matter

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• A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix.

  Delta Burke

  Feelings, Hot, Want

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• I think so much depends on how you are feeling mentally and emotionally. I try to keep my head on tight, and try to feel good, and just go out there and not be afraid.

  Delta Burke

  Thinking, Feel Good, Feelings

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• There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.

  Victor Cruz

  Football, Play, Bigs

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• I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

  Blythe Danner

  Play, Different, Labels

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• But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Government, People, Ends

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• I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

  Scott Ian

  Baby, Men, Would Be

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• I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

  Daniel Johns

  Way, Corny

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

  Daniel Johns

  Animal, Talking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Climbing, Perspective, Mountain

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• You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

  Jennifer O'Neill

  People, Half, Who You Are

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• What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not the effect of [technology], it is that everything exists with-in [its milieu]. It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Technology, Air, Events

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