#tryin

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#back #feel #hedonistic #i #i feel

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#famine #future #human #in the past #instead

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

#cleaning #denied #lack #life #masterpiece

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#frog #i #trying

Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together. ↗

— John Breaux

#each #fighting #figure #got #other

We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#careful #desperately #give #gives #gonna

I'm just trying to play my best and have fun. ↗

— Miguel Cabrera

#fun #have fun #i #just #play

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. ↗

— Eileen Caddy

#everything #get #inspiration #intuition #life

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. ↗

— Frank Capra

#hunch #something #tell #trying #you

We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#attack #bills #china #down #freedom