Barack Obama Quotes, America Quotes, Trying Quotes

I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America.

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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Men Quotes , Trying Quotes

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Style Quotes , Trying Quotes

Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Trying Quotes , Calling Quotes

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

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A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.

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The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.

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Sometimes I think God is trying to test me, both now and in the future. I'll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it'll make me stronger in the end.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Trying Quotes

If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try

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When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Trying Quotes , Napkins Quotes

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

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Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

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I think being compassionate of each other's lives and issues is nonnegotiable when it comes to friendships. We're all going through different stages and issues, and as I get older, I'm trying to lean into that.

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Tags : Abbi Jacobson Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Trying Quotes

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

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What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

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Buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the little beauties here and there isn't going to work either.

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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.

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He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail

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

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Trying Quotes , Looks Quotes

I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

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