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All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.
Lloyd Alexander
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
Charles Lamb
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
William Blake
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
Björk
I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.
Malcolm X
The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.
Lenny Bruce
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
Jack Kevorkian
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails, when you're trying to make a plan work.
Condoleezza Rice
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78.
Paul Dirac
But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.
Robert Smith (musician)
It's good to be 18. For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.
Ezra Miller
When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
E. W. Howe
The idea of sin and retribution is just an attempt to hide behind the shield of superstition. You are trying to find rational causes where there aren't any.
George Alec Effinger
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
James Brown
All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
Tupac Shakur
I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.
Joe Biden
Geoff: We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
Alan Bennett
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
Dave Barry
I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
Jack Osbourne
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard
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