Best ten & trying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.”

People Trying Years Five Ten Years Ago Lifetime Committed Clock Score Better Now

Author:Jerry Garcia

“I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way parents love their kids, the way you love a puppy or chocolate ice cream or home or your favorite book or your sister. Or your uncle. There's those kinds of love and then there's the other kind. The falling kind.”

“If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.”

Source: Contemporary Mind - Some Modern Answers

“I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.”

Feels Trying Years Two Kids Remember Used Sleep Week Bed Ten Endless Christmas Faster Two Weeks Going To Sleep Being A Kid Endless Time

Author:Andrea Arnold

“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.”

“Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.”

Trying Firsts Ten Bites

Book:Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss

Source: Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss

“I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.”

People Knows Writing Trying Kind May Use Dream Speak Language Sound Black Ability Race Taken Pieces Ten Tradition Twenties Tongue Black People Multiplicity Speaking In Tongues

Author:Alexis De Veaux

“I try to wait until things set up just right before I take a trade. Then, when I'm ready to take the trade, I slowly count to ten before I pick up the phone. It's better to have the wrong idea and good timing than the right idea and bad timing.”

Trying Ideas Waiting Ready Ten Picks Trade Phones Timing Right Ideas Wrong Ideas Bad Timing

Author:Linda Bradford Raschke

“If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!”

Ifs Trying Can Do Hurt Hell Months Ten Pages It Hurts You Can Do It Screenplays

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten things you need to know. I'm not trying to spread world peace and understanding. I'm not an advocate or an activist or an educator or a journalist. I'm out there trying to tell stories the best I can.”

Knows World Needs Giving Trying I Can Country Stories Culture Understanding Ten Fairs Accounts Spread Journalist Activist Balanced Educator Other Cultures

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction.”

Ifs Trying Wells Earth Ten Mountain Population Command If I Could Instruction Our Relationship Commandments Moses Genesis Ten Commandments Tablets

Author:David R. Brower

“I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.”

Trying Years Firsts Used Father Band Ten Musician Jazz West Productions Coast West Coast Annie Jazz Band

Author:Molly Ringwald

“My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.”

Ifs Trying Use Used Ten Speech Dollars Daddy Dimes

Author:Charlene Weir

“People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.”

People Trying Millions Streets Ten Bounds Excited

Author:Terry Pratchett

“In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.”

World Trying Mind Self Facts Light Wish Party Boys Bears Ten Window Opposites Praise Silent Complexes Selfish Nervous Witness Scream Cosmic Afterlife Yearning Privileged Eleven Intervals Tics

Author:John Updike

“If there is a problem somewhere, this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person-only one- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it. Now...which person are you?”

People Ifs Giving Trying Persons Problem Happens Three Issues Thousand Ten Solutions Hundred Busy Arguing Settling Concrete Lectures Too Busy Analyzing

Author:Elias Chacour

“It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.”

Trying Firsts Courses President Minutes Ten Tough Presses Iraq Vietnam Conferences Avoided President Bush Press Conferences

Author:David Letterman

“Everest wasn't like any other mountain. Only one of ten climbers who attempt the mountain stands on the summit. And for every three climbers who do scale the mountain, one dies trying. The facts aren't welcoming. But you don't plan a trip to Everest believing those facts will apply to you.”

Trying Believe Facts Dies Three Plans Ten Mountain Scales Welcome Summit Everest Climbers

Author:Stacy Allison

“I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.”

Giving Trying Years Whole Moments Plans Minutes Rocks Ten Hundred Tasks Busy Fancy Idleness Comes And Goes Trifles Whim

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“In wrestling there are so many people inside and outside the ring, and it's so live, and it's this whole adrenaline thing. Whereas you move it into this more intimate thing, everything gets all quiet, someone says action, and you have to say the lines and make the words your own. It couldn't be any more different and it's weird sometimes trying to explain that to people. When I tell people that acting is much more terrifying to me than going out in front of ten thousand people, they don't quite believe it because for some reason that intimacy is just terrifying to me.”

People Trying Believe Different Sometimes Reason Whole Action Moving Lines Acting Fronts Thousand Quiet Ten Rings Intimacy Intimate Wrestling Going Out Adrenaline Inside And Outside

Author:Dave Bautista

“I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again, and I'll maybe be a good writer after I have solved the same problem ten million times.”

Way Feels Trying Problem Millions Becoming Ten Solve New Ways Good Writers

Author:Mike Young

“In Hollywood, maybe only ten percent will make it and the other ninety percent try. This elusive dream of making it and being on top is the same story as the moth being drawn to the flame. The flame and it's attractiveness is something you'll never eliminate. Some will learn how to live in that environment and others will burn in it.”

Trying Stories Dream Environment Ten Percent Hollywood Flames Ninety Elusive Moths Attractiveness

Author:Conrad Hall

“Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.”

Trying Humor Funny Law Millions Ten Commandments Ten Commandments

Author:Earl Wilson

“I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.”

Trying Air Events Ten Balls Train Coaches Jugglers

Author:Dan O'Brien

“I'm certainly an imperfect man. And it's only by the blood of Jesus Christ that I've been redeemed from my sins. So I know that God doesn't call me to do a specific thing, God hasn't given me a list, a Ten Commandments of things to act on the first day. What God calls us to do is follow his will. And ultimately that's what I'm going to try to do.”

Knows Men Trying Firsts Jesus Given Christ Sin Blood Ten Jesus Christ Lists Call Me Imperfect Commandments Redeemed Ten Commandments Perfect Man Blood Of Jesus Imperfect Man

Author:Scott Walker

“Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.”

Should Trying Night Energy Chance Millions Ten Rounds Convince Halls Atoms Reservoirs Splitting Ammunition Gnats Splitting The Atom

Author:Ernest Rutherford

“Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.”

Trying Lines Records Directors Ten Expectations Nine Cake Vehicle Hood Ornaments Animator Icing Icing On The Cake

Author:Adrian Pasdar

“I believe this is a mistake a great many of us are making; we are trying to do God's work with the grace God gave us ten years ago. We say, if it is necessary, we will go on with the same grace. Now, what we want is a fresh supply, a fresh anointing and fresh power, and if we seek it, and seek it with all our hearts, we will obtain it.”

Ifs Want Trying Years Believe Heart I Believe Mistake Grace Goes On Ten Years Ago Great Men Anointing

Book:Secret Power

Source: Secret Power

“I sometimes have to think about that because if I think about these five things and think of them all, I'll drop the balls, so I really have to prioritize and use every free second I have and maximize it. I wake up early, try to get sleep, but try to write for at least three hours every day. A really nice day for me is writing ten hours. I love that. Hasn't been a lot of that recently, but every free second I have I'm doing that.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Sometimes Use Three Hours Sleep Five Nice Ten Balls Wake Up Really Nice Up Early Prioritize Nice Day

Author:James Ponsoldt

“I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.”

Trying Home Four Ten Summer Gold Dollars Eight Chains Right Thing Here And There Clip

Author:LL Cool J

“Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a certain, a bit similar to that. But I didn't want to sell pizza.”

Thinking Want Trying Years Wells Home Kids Wanted Used Certain Bits Sound Behinds Ten Window Sells Curtains Pizza Ambience

Author:Robert Plant

“When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.”

Writing Trying Years Long Lasts Written Cry Ten Finished

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Technology is constantly improving our lives. Look at the cellular telephone. Just ten years ago, virtually nobody was able to get into a car crash caused by trying to steer and dial at the same time; today, people do this all the time.”

People Trying Years Looks Today Able Technology Our Lives Car Ten Years Ago Crash Improving Telephones Steers Car Crash Cellular Constantly Improving

Book:Dave Barry's Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides

Source: Dave Barry's Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides

“I've always wanted to do things differently, and if one person or ten people are doing the same, then I want to do it differently. I love to travel, I love art, I love fashion. I love going to great restaurants and trying different things. Different cultures are inspiring to me.”

People Ifs Want Trying Persons Art Different Wanted Culture Fashion Ten Restaurants Different Things Different Cultures Love Fashion I Love Fashion Trying Different Things Great Restaurants

Author:Molly Sims

“There are so many people in pain because of the Syrian conflict. Ten million trying to live in camps that are barely set up for three.”

People Trying Pain Three Millions Ten Conflict Camps

Author:Chad Urmston

“As an actor, you'll have ten parts in 2015 - eight of them will go to the other actors above you and two of them you might be close to, and you try to make them as good as you can.”

Trying Two Might Actors Ten Eight

Author:Matt Smith

“I don't have like whatever, so I'm just like, "Oh man, I'm just going to try to stay out of most people's way and get a taco and enjoy myself as much as I can," because it's such a beautiful town. Beautiful weather. I called my dad that day to tell him what was going on with my passport and he was like, "Yeah it snowed four inches today. It's ten degrees outside." I'm just like, "Cool. I'm glad I'm in Austin, no matter what."”

People Men Way Trying I Can Matter Today Beautiful Enjoy Four Dad Ten Degrees Towns No Matter What Yeah My Dad Glad Weather Inches Passports Austin Tacos

Author:Justin Vernon

“I feel like you have to go looking for spoilers. I'm not on social media, so I will watch a show that was on ten years ago, and clearly I could find out every single piece of information about that show, but I'm not trying to spoil myself. You definitely participate in your own spoiling.”

Feels Trying Years Shows Social Watches Pieces Media Information Like You Ten Years Ago Social Media Spoil Spoilers

Author:Deborah Ann Woll

“Name ten thousand reasons why you never want to die, go and tell someone who might've forgotten. Try to list the endless reasons why it's good to be alive, and then just smile for a while about them.”

Want Trying Reason Might Dies Names Alive Thousand Ten Chaos Forgotten Lists Endless Reason Why Wanting To Die Just Smile

Author:Paul Baribeau

“I don't like that the government is going to manipulate the information to try to convince me that what I'm eating is not what I'm really eating. If people choose to eat cardboard because it's ten cents cheaper, then let them. That's at the root of freedom. But in the reverse, I'd like to know if what I'm eating or consuming or buying is somehow hurting or exploiting someone in another part of the planet.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Government Hurt Information Planets Ten Eating Roots Buying Convince Cents Reverse Manipulate Consuming Cheaper

Author:Billy Corgan

“Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, try, try, try for ten thousand years.”

Trying Years Mind Dream Clear Thousand Ten Thousand Years Follow Your Dreams Clear Minds

Author:Seungsahn

“Life is like a piece of string with a lot of knots tied in it. The knots are the karma you're born with from all your past lives, and the object of human life is to try and undo all those knots. That's what chanting and meditation in God consciousness can do. Otherwise you simply tie another ten knots each time you try to undo one knot. That's how karma works.”

Trying Humans Past Life Is Can Do Born Consciousness Pieces Meditation Objects Ten Karma Human Life Ties Strings Tied Our Past Your Past Life Is Like Knots Past Life Chanting

Author:George Harrison

“I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems like every generation is always trying to come to terms with Lincoln.”

Knows Trying Book Seems Term Numbers Generations Thousand Ten Various Twelve Always Trying Abraham

Author:Eric Foner

“I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I always loved fantasy, whether for adults or young people; and at that particular point in my life, I wanted to try it, to understand it, as part of the process of learning to be a writer. The results were beyond anything I could have foreseen. As I've said often and elsewhere, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life.”

People Writing Trying Years Said Wanted Young Process Results Fiction Fantasy Creative Particular Ten Late Adults Elsewhere Liberating Non Fiction Writing Fiction Foreseen

Author:Lloyd Alexander

“The answer is for all of us to create our own systems, our own ideas, because vibrant independent ideas will trump this corporate, plastic Borg, this brainwashing they're trying to push. I mean, banning 'father' and 'mother,' banning the word 'husband' and 'wife,' I mean that's so cultic that if I'd of been told ten years ago they were gonna ban words like that, I wouldn't have believed it. They do it with straight faces. I mean, has the left, and of course the controlled-right as well, have they gone collectively insane on a control-freak bent? Or, is there a strategy?”

“I'm still an artist who's searching, trying to evolve, an artist who - nine times out of ten - is dissatisfied with her work, and beats herself, and goes out there and tries again and again, and falls on her face and looks for new challenges.”

Trying Looks Stills Faces Artist Fall Challenges Ten Beats Nine Evolve Again And Again Try Again Dissatisfied New Challenges

Author:Audra McDonald

“The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.”

Trying Sometimes Might Fighting Accepting Acceptance Bed Ten Husband Breaths Wet Your Husband Towels

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

Source: Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life

“Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room.”

People Ifs Trying Lying Given Rooms Modern Minutes Ten Demand Twenties Afternoon Workplace Naps Lying Down

Author:Andrew Weil

“A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know.”

Ifs Knows Trying Littles Helping Might Moving Hours Half Knowing Streets Minutes Fronts Ten Shots Fellows Stranger Killers Not Knowing

Book:Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel

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