#try

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

#always #certain #happy #life #making

Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#country #elections #good #good thing #parliamentary

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#cannot #celtic #character #countrymen #disliked

I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open. ↗

— Janis Ian

#becoming #believed #brought #confronted #country

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#bored #discover #make #nobody #something

I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business. ↗

— Paul Hogan

#being #business #enjoy #entertainment #entertainment industry

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood. ↗

— Simon Hoggart

#country #first #give #government #head

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#highly #mathematics #poetry #relationship #rigorous

I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like. ↗

— Josh Holloway

#artist #been #break #business #doing

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#anyone #even #get #him #long