I did not try to conform to anybody’s ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it. – Rosie Perez
I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet – and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful. – Robert M. Gates
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. – Saint Francis de Sales
The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments and try to bring in what your gut is telling you. – Patricia Riggen
As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character’s economic situation is and hit the stores they’d shop. – Patricia Norris
I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80’s, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it. – Preston Manning
Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph. – Richard Avedon
The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization. – Oriana Fallaci
If I cannot add to my own low level of understanding, I could ill afford to try to raise that of others, seeing that it belongs to our Creator and Lord to give much or little. – Saint Ignatius
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. – Robert Baden-Powell
I competed with Yahoo for 15-1/2 years, and the one thing I tried to do over the years was desperately try to get a deal with them. – Ross Levinsohn
We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again. – Paddy Ashdown
I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in. – Ronald D. Moore
I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things. – Phillip Lim
What I try to do is to go into a poem – and one writes them, of course, poem by poem – to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it’s going to end up. – Paul Muldoon