It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
Thomas Huxley

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas Huxley

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
Sonia Sotomayor

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
Ani DiFranco

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.
Keanu Reeves

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Mignon McLaughlin

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
Samuel Butler

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
Roy Lichtenstein

I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.
Charlie Watts

Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases.
Johnnie Cochran

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
Charles Kettering

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
Charles Kettering

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.
Johnny Cash

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Bronte

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.
Russell Simmons

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.
Anthony J. D'Angelo