Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Paul

For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

Jim Garrison

It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.

Jerry Spinelli

Hey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?

Jerry Seinfeld

I like to try anything... You have to do the experiments to find out what the formulas are.

I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!

Jeffrey Gitomer

Sell yourself before you try to sell your company or your product.

Jeffrey Eugenides

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world

Jeff Koons

I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.

Jim Elliot

Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.

Jim Bakker

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

Jennifer Lee

Don't lose faith in what you are trying to do, even though you will get pummeled emotionally left and right. There are a lot of NOs to any YES. And that's OK.

Jennifer O'Neill

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

Jennifer Lynch

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

Jennifer Lawrence

I'm trying not to change.

Jeff Francoeur

I'm a different hitter than Chipper Jones. He goes up looking for certain pitches to hit. I go up there looking for something over the plate and try to hit it hard.

Jean Houston

There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.

Jacques Prevert

We should try to be happy, just to set an example

Jacques Rivette

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

Jada Pinkett Smith

I try my best to confront situations because I know, at the end of the day, you can deal with it or it will deal with you. I've had enough experience to know that that's how it goes down. There's no going around it.

Jacqueline Novogratz

As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce...

George Harrison

We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied.

Gaspard Ulliel

When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.

Gary Zukav

Try looking at life as a beautifully well-organized dynamic.

Jason Kilar

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

Jason Mewes

I'm getting Puppetmasters, too. They're one of my favorites. And they're coming out with new Puppetmasters. I try not to get everything, but I want so much.

Jason Kidd

I try to anticipate exactly where my teammates are going to be. Sometimes I look good. Sometimes I look bad.

Hillary Clinton

I'm absolutely against privatizing the V.A. And I am going do everything I can to build on the reforms that Senator Sanders and others in Congress have passed to try to fix what's wrong with the V.A.

Hillary Clinton

If we were to normalize relations right now, we would remove one of the biggest pieces of leverage we have to try to influence and change Iranian behavior.

Hillary Clinton

It is difficult finding intelligence that is actionable in a lot of these places, but we have to keep trying.

Hillary Clinton

What I was saying back then was that we have a lot of public health costs that taxpayers end up paying for through Medicaid, Medicare, through uncompensated care, because that was in the context of the push for health care reform and that we needed some way to try to defray those costs.

Hillary Clinton

You [Donald Trump] call yourself the King of Debt. You talk about leverage. You even at one time suggested that you would try to negotiate down the national debt of the United States.

Hillary Clinton

We cannot let those who would try to destabilize the world to interfere with American interests and security.