He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.
Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.
Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.
The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.
God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.
"Acoustic ecologist" is basically a fancy name for someone who tries to become a better listener. Not just listening to those thoughts, ideas, and productions of human intention, but listening to places - whether it's an urban environment, residential, industrial, or even the farthest corner of the world, in one of our last great quiet places where we can listen to the pure sounds of nature without any human-caused noise intrusions.
The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to get people to stop investing in Iran, European companies pull out, China disregards it. You look at history and understand why - they've been around for 4,000 years, they have contempt for the barbarians, they just don't give a damn.
I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.
Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
Is it my imagination, or is there some kind of jealousy thing going on here?"-Inuyasha (gives Inuyasha a really bad look)"It's your imagination. "-Sango (Inuyasha tries to hide behind Kagome) "Whatever you say. "-Kagome
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
If you try too much to change the outside, that shows that you are still attached. If a man tries to be detached, it shows attachment. Why bother about detachment if you are not attached? If a man escapes from women, it shows that sex is still the obsession. Otherwise, why escape from women if you are not obsessed?
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself. . . Through writing and feminism, I also found that if I was a little bit brave, another woman might hear me and see me and recognize that none of us are the nothing the world tries to tell us we are.
The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad.