Always Trying Quotes - Page 2

• A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.

  Virginia Woolf

  Trying, Sides, Transactions

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.294, Wordsworth Editions

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• Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.

  Claudia Gray

  Poor, Danger, Protect

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• Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

  C. S. Lewis

  Player, Castles, Bishops

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• I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Friendly, Fabric, Research

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• What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Lasts, Wells, Consumers

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• When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

  Florence Welch

  Queens, Singing, Palaces

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• Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

  Henry Adams

  God, Men, Atoms

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.312, Penguin

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• I don't think you're ever there. You never arrive, but if you do, you might as well quit because you're already there. Can't get any better. And as players, if you ever have that moment - you should never have that moment. You're always trying to get better.

  Tiger Woods

  Motivational, Sports, Player

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• Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Thinking, Giving, Meg

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Tabitha was always trying unorthodox ways to set her up with guys. Although, to be fair to her sister, Tabitha didn't usually knock the guy unconscious before she forced them together. Still, with Tabitha there was a first time for just about anything. And extreme blind-dating was very vintage T.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Vintage, Dating, Guy

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Night Pleasures”, p.13, Macmillan

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• It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fall, Patriotic, Becoming

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Thinking, Vacation

  Interview with Ali Trachta, www.laweekly.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I was born a Love Goddess. My parents, Caesar and Joanne, always told me that I was a little Goddess and Petite Flower. I was a Petite Flower, and I had all these brothers who were always trying to boss me around. I told them, "No. You must kiss my hand or kiss my feet". That's how I became the Goddess.

  Judy Tenuta

  Brother, Flower, Kissing

  Source: popgeeks.net

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• Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.

  Lionel Messi

  Sports, Football, Team

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• You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Long, Mind, Firsts

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

  Woody Allen

  Art, Real, Perfect

  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

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  If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Success, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Mar 09, 2017

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• Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.

  Mike Singletary

  Song, Saws, Moments

  "San Francisco coach Mike Singletary gets serious after the pants saga" by Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.

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• It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Mean, People

  "'I have the hatred in a trunk in storage'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2005.

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• I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

  John C. Reilly

  Views, People, Worry

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Book, Ghost Stories

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• I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Touching, Heartbreaking, Unconventional

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• Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

  Herbert Spencer

  Time, Men, Killing

  "The Dictionary of Essential Quotations" by Kevin Goldstein-Jackson, (p. 154), 1983.

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• I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.

  Tennessee Williams

  Hate, Hero, Believe

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Communication

  "What Color is Your Paradigm: Thinking for Shaping Life and Results". Book by Howard Edson (p. 184), 2003.

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