Trying famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu -
We will take whatever action is necessary to protect our people,including against the terror tunnels that they are trying to dig against us.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu -
We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens
-- Benjamin Netanyahu -
I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
-- Benjamin Spock -
If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.
-- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal -
We have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.
-- Benjamin W. Chidlaw -
We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.
-- Benmont Tench -
Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
-- Benmont Tench -
I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
-- Benmont Tench -
Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it’s only yourself.
-- Bennett Madison -
The Spirit tells me - Fidel Castro will die - in the 90s. Oooh my! Some will try to kill him and they will not succeed. But there will come a change in his physical health, and he will not stay in power, and Cuba will be visited of God.
-- Benny Hinn -
I don't think it's illegal. I don't think it's against the rules. It's as dangerous for me to have a toothpick in your mouth as it is to have a 200-pound man punch me in the face hard or try to kick me in the face. I'm more worried about that, to be honest. I don't have any superstitions. I won world titles with a toothpick. I defended it without a toothpick. It all depends. Sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't. It's a bad habit. I know I shouldn't do it, but it's fine.
-- Benson Henderson -
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
-- Bernard Baruch -
Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
-- Bernard Baruch -
I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
-- Bernard Beckett -
Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand, what you think you understand, what you understand…They are ten possibilities that we might have some problem communicating. But let’s try anyway…
-- Bernard Werber -
You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
-- Bernardine Dohrn -
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci -
I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.
-- Bernhard Schlink -
Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon -
The inexplicable happens all the time. It makes more sense to simply accept things we observe but cannot understand. It is really more scientific to keep an open mind. Until we can understand and explain the things we now label miracles, let us accept them and try to create more of them.
-- Bernie Siegel -
Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.
-- Bernie Taupin -
If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.
-- Bert McCracken -
Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I cannot imagine a worse job than being president of these Untied States in these most trying of times. President Barack Obama has been under siege from every side for the entirety of his time in office.
-- Beth Broderick -
I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.
-- Beth Ditto -
You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.
-- Beth Gibbons -
Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!
-- Beth Moore -
Trying to obey and serve God before we've come to love Him can be exhausting.
-- Beth Moore -
A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.
-- Beth Moore -
I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms.
-- Beth Nielsen Chapman -
Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.
-- Beth Orton -
Fear is something that can really hold us all back from different things in life. It's important to notice what your fears are and try to conquer them.
-- Bethany Hamilton -
Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.
-- Bethenny Frankel -
Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.
-- Betsy Lerner -
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
-- Bette Midler -
There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
-- Bette Midler -
I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live.
-- Bettie Page -
I wasn't trying to be anything. I was just myself.
-- Bettie Page -
But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.
-- Betty Smith -
When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.
-- Betty Sue Flowers -
We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.
-- Betty White -
I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
-- Betty White -
I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.
-- Betty Williams -
Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.
-- Beverley Mitchell -
By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid civilian casualties, and end combat operations as soon as possible. These are provisions recognized by almost all authorities on international jurisprudence.
-- Bhikkhu Bodhi -
I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.
-- Big Boi -
High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.
-- Big Sean -
I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.
-- Big Sean -
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
-- Bill Ayers -
You definitely go through a stage, most coaches do, where you see a good player and you get enamored, you really like what the player does, but then when you put him into your system, it's not quite the same player that he was in another system. He has some strengths, but you cant utilize all those strengths. If you try to utilize all his strengths, you end up weakening a lot of other players who are already in your system.
-- Bill Belichick -
Anyone who wants to vote probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Voting is the first step towards zombification - trying to get something without actually working for it.
-- Bill Bonner -
Don't give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
-- Bill Bowerman -
Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
-- Bill Bradley -
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
-- Bill Bryson -
Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.
-- Bill Budge -
If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.
-- Bill Burr -
I'm trying to get away from trashing women, to be honest. I think I've done enough of that in my career.
-- Bill Burr -
If a leader's actions don't back up his or her words, those who are trying to follow will first grow confused.
-- Bill Byrd -
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
-- Bill Condon -
I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.
-- Bill Condon -
Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
-- Bill Condon -
Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.
-- Bill Cosby -
Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.
-- Bill Dixon -
In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going.
-- Bill Frisell -
I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.
-- Bill Gates -
Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.
-- Bill Gross -
We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.
-- Bill Harley -
I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious...
-- Bill Hicks -
I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.
-- Bill James -
Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.
-- Bill James -
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
-- Bill Joy -
We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity
-- Bill McKibben -
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
-- Bill Murray -
When I started, the scripts weren't as good, and you'd have to have a huge burst of energy to go, "Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff's no good." So you'd have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining? Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don't have to feel that way. You feel like the script's coming to you, you can just relax. You don't have to drive the boat.
-- Bill Murray -
I try to be available for life to happen to me. We're in this life, and if you're not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you're available, life gets huge. You're really living it.
-- Bill Murray -
I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'
-- Bill Nighy -
I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.
-- Bill Parcells -
You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
-- Bill Parcells -
Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.
-- Bill Parcells -
I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.
-- Bill Pullman -
Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward.
-- Bill Shankly -
The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
-- Bill Veeck -
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
-- Bill Veeck -
What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.
-- Bill Watterson -
We've been trying to sell cyclists of all ages and abilities on very detailed and demanding education and training programs designed to make them more like motorists. Bicyclists have shown they don't want this. What cyclists repeatedly tell us they do want is more safe places to ride, and it is time we listened to that message.
-- Bill Wilkinson -
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
-- Billie Holiday -
We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world
-- Billie Joe Armstrong -
Try being my size and going into a public restroom.
-- Billy Barty -
I have a feeling that we have been placed on this earth for a special reason and although I have not fulfilled all my missions, I am trying.
-- Billy Barty -
I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.
-- Billy Bob Thornton -
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
-- Billy Boyd -
I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.
-- Billy Bragg -
The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping I could give us some energy and try to bring us back.
-- Billy Campbell -
Try to think where you want to put the ball, not where you don't want it to go.
-- Billy Casper
