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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck

Loneliness, Writer, Explain

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
Aeschylus

God, Hard, Hand

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
Joseph Brodsky

Change, Political, Soul

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Rose Kennedy

Great, Adversity, Prosperity

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'
Jerry Saltz

Art, Put, Against

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

Dream, Sea, Born

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.
Bam Margera

Hurt, Down, Try

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.
Tori Amos

Control, Hand, Company

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
Billy Corgan

Down, Company, Close

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
Alex Grey

Society, Thinking, Highly

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus

Friends, Adversity, Makes

I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.
Imran Khan

Win, Minds, President

I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.
Pat Robertson

Mean, Prayer, Lord

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
Pat Robertson

Life, Nature, God

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

Person, Three, Six

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

Good, Freedom, Someone

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. Michener

Character, Third, Consists

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
Ice Cube

Life, Work, Beautiful

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

Love, War, Dance

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
Antonin Artaud

Long, Human, Try

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

End, Around, Keep

Obama seems like he tries to talk everyone into what he believes - and that's part of why we elected him, because he's a calm, reasonable guy - but behind that, there has to be some fight. You have to be able to take a few punches and throw a few punches.
Dee Dee Myers

Fight, Him, Why

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.
Thomas Frank

Try, Culture, Industry

I am not a person who tries on in the stores. It drives me crazy. So I buy and take back if I don't like something. I really don't enjoy being in the dressing room. I rather just try it on in my house.
Jessica Simpson

Crazy, Person, Enjoy

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
Ben Stein

God, Live, Sometimes

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
Sally Ride

Same, Though, Practice

When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.
Fred Durst

Forward, Looking, Stuff

A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.
John Sununu

Win, Down, Path

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
Joan Didion

Down, Write, Useful

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
Cyril Cusack

Religion, God, Person

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