Trying Quotes - Page 35

• These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.

  Wadah Khanfar

  Imagination, Balance, Violence

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• But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, People, New Day

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• Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

  Lionel Hampton

  New Day, Looks, Instruments

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• At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

  Sergio Aragones

  World, End Of The World, Ends

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• One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or a job or being a housewife, but something more complete than all those, which would include goals set by oneself and a circle of life-time type friends. I think this is one of the hardest things to achieve, in fact often just trying doesn't achieve it but rather it seems to develop almost by accident.

  Jessica Mitford

  Jobs, Thinking, Circles

  "Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford".

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• If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

  Pete du Pont

  Winning, Opponents, Election

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• I try to cope with everything through humor.

  Gail Porter

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• Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.

  Paul Weyrich

  Money, Teenager, Teeth

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• Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister... She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac... Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Hurt, Writing, Thinking

  "Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Fook Kwang Han, Sumiko Tan, and Warren Fernandez, 1998.

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• Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Hurt, Thinking, Chinese

  "Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Han Fook Kwang, Warren Fernandez, Sumiko Tan, 1997.

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• When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

  Theodor Adorno

  Molotov Cocktail, People, Cocktails

  "The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950". Book by Martin Jay, p. 279, 1973.

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• What I am trying to say is that Jesus who incarnated God 2,000 years ago is mystically present and waiting to be discovered in EVERY person you and I encounter

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Years, Waiting

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• My whole life I've been trying to prove people wrong. I ended up beating everything.

  Hines Ward

  People, Whole Life, Prove

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• If you believe in a dream and have the courage to try, anything is possible

  Rick Hansen

  Dream, Believe, Ifs

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• I don't try to be anything. I just want to play my game.

  Jaromir Jagr

  Games, Play, Want

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• I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar playing is a means to an end. While they're making up new tunes I can thoroughly enjoy myself just doodling around with a guitar for a whole evening. I'm fascinated by new sounds I can get from different instruments I try out. I'm not sure that makes me particularly musical. Just call me a guitar fanatic instead, and I'll be satisfied.

  George Harrison

  Believe, Mean, Guitar

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• Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.

  Ajahn Chah

  Running, Teacher, Suffering

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• When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Discovery, Research, Lines

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• Today I felt like a part of something awesome, the human race. I know it can be ugly; it really is in so many ways. But today there was nothing ugly to see, just people trying to be better. And maybe that's the key. Not resolutions and forgotten promises, but instead a commitment to do this year a little better than the last. I'm feeling good about this one. I really am.

  Andrew McMahon

  Commitment, Keys, Race

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• Hundreds of stupid flies gather
  On a piece of rotten meat,
  Enjoying, they think, a delicious feast.
  This image fits with the song
  Of the myriads of foolish living beings
  Who seek happiness in superficial pleasures;
  In countless ways they try,
  Yet I have never seen them satisfied.

  7th Dalai Lama

  Song, Stupid, Thinking

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• Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

  James O. Fraser

  Cutting, Knives, Purpose

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• It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Letting Go, Men, Speak

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• I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist.

  Jenna Jameson

  Feminist, Hardest

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

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• Just know that someone out there always has it worst, and you should try to realize that there really is a lot to look forward to

  John O'Callaghan

  Looks, Realizing, Should

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• The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist came to Stravinsky and said he was sorry, he had tried his best, the passage was too difficult, no violinist could play it. Stravinsky said, 'I understand that. What I am after is the sound of someone trying to play it.'

  Thomas Powers

  Sorry, Play, Sound

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