Lord Knows I Try Quotes

#1. I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try
without let up
to break you.

Mary Karr

#2. I'm an innate maximalist.

David Mitchell

#3. I've worked on all sorts of things, like the sci-fi stuff for Vin Diesel, where the script is numbered and is in unphotocopy-able colours and your name is stamped into every page. And it doesn't really help because it creates a false sense of specialness about the thing.

Colm Feore

#4. We'll never know whether something new and wonderful is possible unless we try. Let's scratch our heads, stretch our minds, be adventurous! Serve God with boldness, and who knows what wonders the Lord may work?

Jimmy Carter

#5. I have two young children, and I will say that motherhood is its own peak, just like in the process of writing: one climbs and is continuously moving with each book. Becoming a mother is the greatest connection I've ever felt to being spiritual.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#6. I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.

Ringo Starr

#7. Let's Elevate, Educate, and Empower Our Youth ... Not Incarcerate Them! Try To HELP Our Youth ... Don't HURT Them! Lord knows they'll have plenty of enough hurdles to leap over in their lives!

Timothy Pina

#8. Legends have it that once a Scot covers a lass with his plaid, his intentions are spoken.

Vonnie Davis

#9. May there never be a haze over your eyes, and allow you to look at your life just the way you planned it. Through the bumps, twist and turns in your journey, let it make you wiser. Embrace life's lessons with gratitude and appreciation, and then move forward with an open heart and mind.

Ron Baratono

#10. I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.

Claire Denis

#11. I'll tear down the halls of Olympus or Hades or whatever I have to do to find you. I'm not going to let you go, Cassandra. Not without a fight.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

Benjamin Franklin

#13. It's all still about having a good story. You have to have a good story as your anchor, as your main focus. So for me, personally, I just like to concentrate on writing the best book I can, and if there's other stuff that goes along with it, that's awesome, as long as the story is central.

Rick Riordan

#14. The student asked the master,
"Teacher, what should I do to become great?"
the master replied:
Succeed where others have failed.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. You can't dwell on what might have been ... and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#16. I feel I can give you everything without giving myself away, I whispered in your basement bed. If one does one's solitude right, this is the prize.

Maggie Nelson

#17. It was the kind of knowledge that, once it enters you, seems like it's lived there forever.

Marie Rutkoski

#18. Regrets will eat a man up. My pa told me that. Said you should always try to make your peace when you can, 'cause no man knows what the Lord has in store for us tomorrow.

R.S. Belcher

#19. I wasn't asking anything about God," Jonah complained.
"Yeah, you kind of were," JB said. "If there is fate, who else would control it?

Margaret Peterson Haddix