Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hillary Clinton

Remember what Teddy Roosevelt did. Yes, he took on what he saw as the excesses in the economy, but he also stood against the excesses in politics. He didn't want to unleash a lot of nationalist, populistic reaction. He wanted to try to figure out how to get back into that balance that has served America so well over our entire nationhood.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

Evelyn Glennie

I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

Evelyn Underhill

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it. Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.

Eva Longoria

I'm not a matchmaker. I'm a horrible matchmaker. I always try. I'm not very good.

Evan Esar

If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.

Eugene Ionesco

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

Eugene Ionesco

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

Erno Rubik

I want to try to keep my life the same.

Ernst Haas

A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.

Ernest Hemingway

If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.

Ernest Hemingway

I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

Ernest Hemingway

Before you quit, you have to try

Ernest Hemingway

But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone.

Ernest Hemingway

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

Ezra Koenig

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

Etty Hillesum

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

Erwin McManus

We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'

Erykah Badu

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

Ernest Mandel

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

Eriq La Salle

Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.

Florynce Kennedy

Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

Florence Nightingale

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

Fisher Stevens

I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast.

Flora Lewis

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

Flavor Flav

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

Fede Alvarez

I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.

Federico Fellini

I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.

Fareed Zakaria

There is no way to turn off this global economy, nor should one try. Every previous expansion of global capitalism has led to greater prosperity across the world.

Faith Ringgold

I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

Fannie Lou Hamer

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

Fannie Lou Hamer

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.