I Keep Trying Quotes

#1. I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them.

Timothy Dalton

#2. I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. There is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

Robert Musil

#4. The deadliest poison cannot harm you if you do not consume it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

Chris Bauer

#6. Competition is for the competent.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#7. If a gesture is the most powerful command that you have, then words mean very little.

Lujan Matus

#8. I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ...

John Geddes

#9. I had not learned then that death avoids a man who desires it, to snatch at him whose heart holds fast to life.

Mika Waltari

#10. Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.

H. Emilie Cady

#11. There is much to be learned from the world around us - far more than we normally comprehend. The Ancient Ones knew this well - most particularly the wise teachers among them - those who, in the Navajo tongue, were called "Anasazi.

Anasazi Foundation

#12. I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes

George Soros

#13. that amazing row of ab-mountains between hips so narrow even my sweet old Nana would imagine wrapping her legs around them.

Faleena Hopkins