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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. (Alex Haley)
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. View quote
Jeff Koons
I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments. View quote
Dr. Seuss
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's happiness, the happiness of others. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. View quote
Thomas Browne
I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past. View quote
Mario Lemieux
My father said: You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals. View quote
J. Paul Getty
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him. View quote
Philip James Bailey
I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad. (E. L. Doctorow)
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is. View quote
Roberto Cavalli
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man. View quote
Alan Paton
What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector. View quote
Jacques Attali
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them. (Robert De Niro)
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be ''men'' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men. View quote
Florence Nightingale
I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face. View quote
Johnny Depp
Have you ever tried to split sawdust? View quote
Eugene McCarthy
For once you must try not to shirk the facts mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. View quote
Bertolt Brecht