Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

Alan Alda

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

Al Purdy

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

Al Pacino

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

Al Hirschfeld

You learn your limitations and then you try to work within them.

Al Jarreau

I'm walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.

Akio Morita

I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

Chris Carter

When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

Chris Bosh

You can't be afraid to get back up and try again, and you really can't do that unless you acknowledge the failure.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I choose every role, in association with the other ones. I try not to do one thing, over and over and over again.

Chris Abani

There was a positive side to not trying at something: you could always pretend that your life would have been different if you had.

Chogyam Trungpa

It's no use trying to be different than you are.

Chinua Achebe

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

Chinua Achebe

Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

Edward Hirsch

Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux of experience and the world's movement, you have to set down a stake and try and make something that will last.

Edward Hirsch

It's not important - it's not necessary that you read everything. What is necessary is that you care about things that you read and that you find something that really matters to you and you try and make something like that.

Edward Hirsch

I don't have a set schedule to work on poetry at any given time, at the same time every day, but I do try to work on poetry every day and I do find some time every day that I can with some exceptions to work on poetry.

Edward Hirsch

In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through the page to make a connection by the side of the road with some other person.

Edward Hirsch

You can seek clarity, you can seek warmth, you can try to make something for lasting. You can pack something in salt so that it's well made and you can hope that it outlasts time. But, ultimately that's not up to you.