“I'm happy to try any genre, from drama to comedy and anything in between. Although, to be fair, for most of my career, I've been at the mercy of what people are willing to put me in.” PeopleTryingCareersComedyWillingDramaFairsMercyGenre Author:Chris Pratt
“If we are to be the last of the White men who conquered the world; if we are finally to be overwhelmed by a pack of rats, let us at least face the death of our race as our ancestors faced their death - like man. Let us not crawl down amongst the rats begging for mercy or trying to out-sneak them and pretend to be rats ourselves!” IfsMenWorldTryingLastsFacesWhiteRaceMercyAncestorPacksRatsWhite ManOverwhelmedBeggingSneak Author:George Lincoln Rockwell
“Our hearts are continuously rebellious. Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way." If this goes on day after day after day, year after year, month after month, it would understandable for God to say, "I've given you ten trillion tries. You're finished." But it's not. So in that sense, His grace is always surprising, never ceases to be amazing and His mercy is remarkably outrageous.” IfsWayWantNeedsTryingYearsHeartMomentsGivenSinGraceMonthsGoes OnTenMercyDeedsFinishedCeaseMy WayThat MomentSurprisingNeed YouRebelliousOutrageousDon't Need YouI Don't Need You Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.” IfsWayTryingCharacterJesusMercyDoctrineMerciful Author:Hosea Ballou
“The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.” TryingCasesRecordsMercyPunishmentMeritReceivingAndrew Author:Abraham Lincoln
“When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.” TryingDoeSidesJusticeBeatsMercySinnerJustifyAttributesPleadingAttributes Of God Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“I mean these are universal themes. I try not to preach, for sure. I don't enjoy movies that preach - so I don't want to preach myself when I tell stories because I just feel all of these themes are built into us in terms of redemption and mercy and love and compassion and all these things. And the negative sides, as well.” WantFeelsTryingWellsMeanStoriesEnjoySidesTermCompassionBuiltNegativeMercyAnd LoveUniversalRedemptionThemeLove And CompassionUniversal Themes Author:Michael Landon, Jr.
“I was working in a church in Florida as a youth intern, which means I really didn't do much other than staple stuff. I'm from Dallas, Texas, and every time my grandmother would call-she would call me any time of the day-I'd be home answering the phone. She was like, "What do you do all day?" and sarcastically I would say, "Well, I'm trying to chalk off the next year to spend time finding a band name." And she said, "Well mercy me, why don't you get a real job?" I thought, "Wait a minute. That's the perfect name." That kind of freed up my year but that's where the name came from.” TryingYearsWellsKindMeanSaidRealHomeJobsNextNamesStuffWaitingChurchPerfectMinutesYouthBandFindingsMercyPhonesGrandmotherCall MeTexasFloridaEnd TimesMy GrandmotherSpend TimeNext YearDallasStaplesReal JobsChalkDallas TexasAnswering The Phone Author:Bart Millard
“There's a lot of people that try to come between my clique and try to stop what we're doin', but we got no mercy for 'em.” PeopleTryingMercyEmsClique Author:Ace Hood
“Mercy Watson is a pig. She lives with Mr. and Mrs. Watson, who are not pigs. I had that basic premise, but I couldn't make it work. I would come back to it, try it, see that I was failing, and put it aside.” TryingFailingMercyPigsPremisesWatson Author:Kate DiCamillo
“Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.” TryingChallengesPiecesMissingElementsMercyGreedObsessionBlockSymbolsHopefullyMake SenseObsessedToastsWatsonEndearingMissing Piece Author:Kate DiCamillo
“I have to drink wine before I go on stage. That is still part of the ritual, the ceremony. I usually go for a Cabernet or a Merlot. You're at the mercy of promoters who try to cut corners, so you don't always get the best wines in the world. But I look at the wine as being medicinal. It's not there to be enjoyed, it's part of my preparation for a show.” WorldTryingCuttingDrinkMercyWinePreparationRitualCeremonyBeing Me Author:Wayne Hussey
“Look, folks, everybody knows we're not gonna kick these DREAMers out of the country. I know that a lot of people think that we should have no mercy here on... "Mercy" is the wrong word. That, if we're gonna have border security, we're gonna have border security. If you're illegal and you're here illegally, you gotta go back and try to get in legally. I understand that.” PeopleThinkingTryingCountrySecurityMercyDreamer Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.” IfsTryingUseHandsMovingWaitingMercyIncomeBegetsMoving Ahead Author:Muhammad Yunus
“and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people” PeopleKnowsGivingTryingLooksDoneEnoughPlayHomeMovingSpaceHalfAirIntegrityProveMercyLimbsNot AloneSpiresSteeples Author:Ani DiFranco
“Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and volcanoes and asteroids and terrorists and disease and a million other things. We concentrate on having little thoughts so we don't have BIG THOUGHTS. . . . You've got to ignore the one big truth - life is fatal.” ThinkingTryingLittlesBigsLife IsMillionsPlanetsDiseaseMercyTerroristViolentVulnerableTruth Of LifeHurricanesVolcanoesSpecksAsteroids Author:Deb Caletti
“No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy.” KnowsWayGivingTryingLife IsHeavenLordMercyLet MeEternityMy WayJustify Author:Mitch Albom
“There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to perfection. Or maybe it's just that I've lived inside of my head more than any other person in the history of the world. Maybe none of us can really predict how we will act at any give moment. Maybe we're all at the mercy of circumstance in spite of our well-laid plans.” WorldGivingTryingMindWellsPersonsPlayMomentsMemoriesImaginePlansMovementCircumstancesPerfectionMercySpiteWorld History Author:Mary E. Pearson
“Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied.” TryingEyeMercySeatsClimbsLiedMothsShufflingBright Eyes Book:The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013 Source: The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013
“I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see them at all, that we recoil and hide our eyes, and no one has ever cringed at the sight of a soybean factory. I also know phony arguments when I hear them--unbridled appetite passing itself off as altruism, and human arrogance in the guise of solemn 'duty.' We must, as C.S. Lewis advises, 'reject with detestation that covert propoganda for cruelty which tries to drive mercy out of the world by calling it names such as 'Humanitarianism' and 'Sentimentality.” KnowsWorldTryingHumansEyeNamesCrimeDutyBearsCallingArgumentMercySightPassingPassingsCrueltyArroganceRejectsAppetiteFactoriesAltruismHumanitarianismAdviseSolemnSentimentalityPhonyGuiseCovertRecoilSoybeans Author:Matthew Scully
“I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.” TryingShowsDemandMercySaintDeedsExcuseNeighborAriseShow MeShrinksServing OthersDivine Mercy Author:Mary Faustina Kowalska
“Mercy is to care, and care very deeply about one another. It is to care to the point where we are prepared to be involved with the sufferings and adversities of others. It implies that I am prepared to put myself in the other person's place. It means that I shall try to really understand why they behave as they do, even though it injures me. It is a willingness to walk a mile in the other man's moccasins before I criticize his conduct. It is the extension of good will, help, forgiveness, compassion and kindness to one who may not seem to deserve it.” MenTryingMayMeanPersonsHelpingSeemsCareSufferingWalksCompassionKindnessInvolvedDeserveMercyAdversityPreparedMilesBehaveWillingnessCriticizeExtensionsGood WillVery DeepKindness And Compassion Author:W. Phillip Keller
“. . . I do think that deep down, a lot of my work is about people trying to make reasonable accommodations of situations that are insane or absurd. . . . At first I thought the events had power in themselves, that I would just present them. I really wasn't aware of the things that finally became central issues to me - the shifting alliances, the way people hardly even know they've shifted. That part of [A QUESTION OF MERCY] is very familiar to me in terms of my other plays.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayTryingFirstsPlayTermSituationIssuesEventsMercyFamiliarAbsurdInsaneCraftsReasonableShiftingAlliancesDeep DownAccommodations Author:David Rabe
“One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.” PeopleGivingWritingTryingI CanRolesOne ThingWillingMercy Author:Linda Cardellini