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It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The attempt looked so strange that Scipio started to mimic him behind his back. "What's the silly giggling about?" Barbarossa asked when Prosper and Renzo bust out laughing. Cornelia Funke
John Grisham quote: "I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think..."
I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking. John Grisham
I tried to decide just how I should respond to them. Whether I should act like the teacher that I was, or like the nigger that I was supposed to be. Ernest Gaines
I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words. Haruki Murakami
Annie Dillard quote: "I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself..."
I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. Annie Dillard
Richard P. Feynman quote: "Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science?..."
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science? for to fill your heart with love is enough. Richard P. Feynman
If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won't help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you. How you get that kind of power or... Shunryu Suzuki
Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice."I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire. Orson Scott Card
How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, "I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans. Stephen King
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants andnot give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if somethingcould have materialized -- and never knowing. David Viscott
John Kenneth Galbraith quote: "Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies..."
Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried. John Kenneth Galbraith
George Carlin quote: "Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those..."
Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward. George Carlin
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t. T. S. Eliot
On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed. Thomas Jefferson
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "The saints are the sinners who keep on trying."
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying. Robert Louis Stevenson

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