God has broken me in every way possible. I spent a year not caring, a year trying to figure out what I'd done to deserve it. and a year trying to make it right.
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Related They were just trying to figure out, as I have done for the last year and a half, who did what to Ju... BRIDGET BOYLE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS A new year is another vantage opportunity to re-strategize the venture called life. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The way this year worked out was definitely a different experience for me, trying to make different ... AARON HEILMAN I'm a little more confident and comfortable this year. This time of year I'm trying to make every pl... CHARLIE ADAMS They're trying to get it all in now--in a year to a year and a half. BRIAN JAMES Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE It's a major concern, ... We've spent a year doing the legwork trying to get a title sponsor. This y... BOB DAVIES It's a new year, a new look, a new beginning. We're trying to keep out all the bad news from last ye... STEPHEN JACKSON Again, I'm not getting it done, ... It's frustrating. I've been trying to figure it out all year. It... ERIC MILTON A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER It's never easy when you lose that many starters in a year. Fortunately, we have a very solid progra... LORI JOHNSON It's nice to know they're a little more comfortable this year than they were last year. Last year wa... APRIL STARY We've got to get a lot better. We're putting a brand new system in and we're able to get it done on ... CLIFF YERKES A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. ALAN PERLIS A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. UNKNOWN We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER I think I learned a lot throughout the year. I felt more comfortable at the plate and with big leagu... MARK TEAHEN I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on... BUZZ OSBORNE We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship. DREW BREES I was just trying to put it on net and not get it blocked. The goal got me going and helped out a lo... DUSTIN BYFUGLIEN Whatever I had last year, I'm trying to double it this year. HESTER READY If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA I wrote a script, Steven loved it, wanted to shoot it this year. George didn't love it, it got sort ... FRANK DARABONT That year we had that big lead early [in the season], but this year has been a tough fight. That tim... JEFF WILLIAMS Pessimism - Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year w... LARRY KERSTEN I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I ... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I just want to go out there and hit the routines like I know I can hit them. Last year, it was crazy... JULIE DWYER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every w... LIONEL MESSI It took me a year to figure out that I needed to spend a lot more time on special teams. GUY PERRON It's going to be a weird and exciting year competing with these guys and trying to win a job here. I... IAN KINSLER I now have 10-year-olds asking me about how to become successful, how to become a business owner, wh... MICHELLE PHAN In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in such a compromising posi... JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET The last year has just been so good for me. It let me calm down and figure out what I wanted and why... JOEY MCINTYRE I'm not even thinking that way. The NCAA is something that happens at the end of the year as a rewar... DAVE LEITO There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark. ZE FRANK There's probably a certain amount of broken furniture at Apple headquarters. I think they're trying ... JOSH BERNOFF Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i... LEWIS N. ROE I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES In a way, it was a disappointing year because we had a 21-win season last year. But to come in at th... JAYME WILSON I am just building off what I did last year. I am trying to improve little by little. I am doing sim... ANDREW ROCK I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make t... JUDD APATOW Going unbeaten (in the league) for a second straight year is a big deal to the coaching staff and th... DARREN KALINA There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I can see the improvement. I can do so many things now offensively. Last year, I was still trying to... JOEL ANTHONY Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD I just resign myself to a couple of minutes being added every year, so it's nice to see that they're... JOE GROSSMAN We were being aggressive and trying to make things happen, and it just didn't work out. We talked ab... DONNA PROCTOR A year ago he was just trying to play and not make mistakes. This year you've seen not just his impr... JEFF HORTON They're kicking it away from me, so that makes it that much tougher. I'm not really worried about it... CLETIS GORDON I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out,... MARIAN MCPARTLAND Order is the first law of heaven, and you have to have order to survive on Earth. Figure out what ha... IYANLA VANZANT I work about four minutes a year. The rest of the time I'm trying to have as good a time as possible... BRIAN JENNINGS January is a good time to make a financial checkup: Am I fiscally ready for the coming year? What ar... ELDA DI RE Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER Religion is a way to make order from chaos, and I think economics is not dissimilar. In religion and... STEPHEN J. DUBNER I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me. PAT SUMMITT I still feel I am that 14-year-old kid, hungry and trying to find a way through life. That's wha... ANTHONY JOSHUA We aren't worried about what happened last year. We are trying to go further and make it as far as w... ERIC EVANS I think it's just the year of experience under her belt. Last year, she was trying it out to see if ... KATRINA VAN TASSEL You have this 18-year old who is trying to figure out his life. But you also have these 40-year-olds... MIKE MILLS We're all squished in trying to figure out how to make it work. JAMES RICHARDSON Each one is special. Every kid holds a special place with me. I think we find a different way every ... LUKE CIOFFI Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has
chosen not to accept it. They hav... LEWIS N. ROE The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc... LEWIS N. ROE Our biggest challenge will be trying to find ways to help farmers make it through this year, BOB GOODLATTE We're right now trying to switch things over. Eventually, it's going to be Linda's Diner. The [Airpo... CHRIS HUGHES Try, try, and try again. Never stop trying. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON I'm still trying to figure out if I like it or not. It has taken a bit of getting used to, that's fo... BOB SHANK I figured something out in 2004 and last year kind of carried it over. This year, I'm trying to be c... CHIP AMBRES Tony has definitely set a high standard at tight end. He's done it year in and year out. This is jus... ANTONIO GATES This time a year ago he was just a guy who was trying to get lined up right. JUSTIN ZWICK We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, ... AL BAGNOLI We've been trying for a year to get information. LARRY DOYLE Trying the way we do every time we look in a mirror to figure out exactly who that person is. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Last year, he was trying too hard to make everybody happy, DOUG DAVIS A billion dollars may sound like a lot of money, but compare it to the $1 trillion spent globally on... ERIC NEWTON I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like. CHARLIE KAUFMAN It's a great [service] to offer to the community, because parents struggle every year to figure out ... DENISE BROOKS A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS
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JANINE DI GIOVANNI In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on... JANINE DI GIOVANNI My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage. JANINE DI GIOVANNI There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to... JANINE DI GIOVANNI It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under thei... JANINE DI GIOVANNI Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom. JANINE DI GIOVANNI I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I ha... JANINE DI GIOVANNI Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base - essential in a... JANINE DI GIOVANNI Hats, giant shades and 60-plus sunblock are part of my summer repertoire. I don't want wrinkles,... JANINE DI GIOVANNI It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work. JANINE DI GIOVANNI For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pas... JANINE DI GIOVANNI Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manag... JANINE DI GIOVANNI I see so many people get so wrapped up in wanting to get a bigger SUV or a bigger house. But then I ... JANINE DI GIOVANNI From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little re... JANINE DI GIOVANNI Little changes can start to make a difference in the world. JANINE DI GIOVANNI To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the... JANINE DI GIOVANNI I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. ... JANINE DI GIOVANNI Human memory is short and terribly fickle. 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