Tries Quotes

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is and what he tries to be.

The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement.

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

When I was broke, no one ever offered to buy me a beer. Now that I have quite a bit of money, everybody tries to buy me beers. Where were all these people back when I was in college and broke?

Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.

I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.