The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.
It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.
Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.
I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn't even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.
It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.
We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.
Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.
The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.
A lot of people don't realize that when you're trying to lose weight, or just trying to stay fit, 85 percent of it is what you eat, and 15 percent of it is how you work out.
I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience.
We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.
To ask a favor from a miser is like trying to make a hole in water.
A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet.
Never seek the wind in the field. It is useless to try and find what is gone.
If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die.
No matter how hard you try the bull will never give milk.
Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.
Trying to second-guess Tegan was like trying to track a tornado. A tornado he had no business chasing.
I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying to spare me living through the day-to-day reality of her illness.
Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.
Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.
