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"Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths, the suns, the moons, the stars, the planets. They in their turn, are trying to rush towards each other, and at last, we know that the whole universe, mental and material, will be fused into one."
"The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ."
"Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out."
"You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property."
"I try to do something physical every day. I don't go heavy every day, though."
"Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there's always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and try to watch what I can improve on, whatever little detail it is."
"You try to be faithful And sometimes you're cruel. You are mine. Then, you leave. Without you, I can't cope. And when you take the lead, I become your footstep. Your absence leaves a void. Without you, I can't cope. You have disturbed my sleep, You have wrecked my image. You have set me apart. Without you, I can't cope."
"Die trying" is the proudest human thing."
"If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be."
"I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films."
"The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest."
"Why spend your whole life trying to be somebody that you're not? It's so much more fun to be yourself **** what everybody says."
"We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams."
"I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life."
"If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you."
"You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life."
"I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem."
"Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us."
"The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice."
"As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body."
