A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
Timothy West

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.
Robert Reich

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.
Neal Boortz

A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either.
Mario Monti

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
Moliere

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
Joseph Conrad

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.
Marilyn vos Savant

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.
Niki Lauda

All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.
Thomas Wentworth

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Alan K. Simpson

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Sacha Guitry

Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.
Janet Malcolm

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
Dick Gregory

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
Sargent Shriver

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.
Alvin Dark

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.
Robert Benchley

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
Marshall McLuhan

Benji usually tries to match his hair with his underwear, and you know how he had the pink hair for a while well we caught him in a pink thong one day!
Joel Madden