A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.
It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.
I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting
When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.
The vision of Hinduism is unity in diversity. First, Hinduism lovingly embraces all alien elements; second, it tries to assimilate them; third, it tries to expand itself as a whole, with a view to serving humanity and nature.
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.
The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.
My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.
As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has done this before, often. It’s one of those drunken long shots which just might, at least theoretically, once in ten thousand tries, throw a relationship right out of its orbit and send it whizzing off on another. Do women ever stop trying? No. But, because they never stop, they learn to be good losers.
Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it.
While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
I'm not a believer of the "perfect world" TV tries to feed us.
It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.
The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No one tries to cry except bad actors. How a character hides his feelings tells us who he is. Most people don't know that, and most actors don't do that. Therefore, there are a lot of actors who put me to sleep, that are considered good actors, but they're predictable and boring. I know how the scene is going to end before it ends.
As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.
When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.
ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.