Famous Quotes & Sayings

George H. W. Bush

I try to hold my charisma in check.

George H. W. Bush

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family. To make them more like The Waltons and less like The Simpsons.

Hailee Steinfeld

I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.

Gus Van Sant

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

Gus Van Sant

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

Gus Van Sant

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

Gus Van Sant

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

Greg Maddux

I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder. Me, I try to locate better.

Graham Nelson

I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

Jim Broadbent

In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.

Jim Butcher

I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

Jim Butcher

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

Jesse Ventura

I want to try to become friends with Russia.

Myles Munroe

Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.

Myles Munroe

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

Moliere

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

Milton Friedman

Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with somebody else's money, unless you first take it away from them? The only way you can take it away from them is the threat of force: you have a policeman, tax collector, who comes and takes it from them.

Milton Friedman

Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.

Mike Shanahan

What I'm trying to do is be as honest as I can, and I don't normally do that.

Mike Schmidt

You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

Mike DeWine

If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches..

Nate Silver

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

Nate Silver

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

Nancy Pearcey

Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts

Nancy Pearcey

A part is always too limited to explain the whole. You might picture a worldview as trying to stuff the entire universe into a box. Invariably, something will stick out of the box. Its categories are too "small" to explain the world.

Kendall Schmidt

There's no such thing as failure if you just try.

Kendall Schmidt

Stop trying to be what society's shoving down your throat.

Karen Thompson Walker

I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

Julian Casablancas

When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can never be that good.

Julian Casablancas

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

Julian Baggini

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

Julian Baggini

The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

Julian Assange

Wikileaks has - we specialize in bringing the First Amendment to the world, and we were always very surprised one of our biggest battles would be trying to bring it to the United States under an Obama administration.