Trying Quotes

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are. — Eric Drooker

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure. — John D. Barrow

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer. — Robert Breault

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense. — Jessica Mathews

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong. — R.A. Salvatore

Life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience. — Holly Lynn Payne

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others. — Carla Gugino

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to. — Lyle Lovett

I have a fantasy that might be fun. Why don't we try it? — Sue Johanson

It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way. — Edie Sedgwick

One thing a person won't do when he's laughing is try to beat you up. — Leslie Nielsen

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist. — Roger Ballen

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done. — William J. Clinton

You, yourself, will never rest until you've tried! — J.K. Rowling

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend
our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature. — Dale E. Turner

Stop trying to be something you aren't and just let her love you. — Jay Crownover

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny. — Kristen Wiig

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. — Carol Ann Duffy

If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though. — Michel Ocelot

Y'know, watching government regulators trying to keep up with the world is my favorite sport. — Neal Stephenson

Everyone is trying to get attention but intelligent persons get theirs by doing something worthwhile, beneficial to himself and the community. — Beatrice Sparks

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference. — John Shirley

The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural. — Hakeem Olajuwon

You'll live your life a lot happier if you stop trying to be perfect. Do your best for Jesus. When you fall short, He'll carry you. — Karen Kingsbury

I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field. — Lawrence Timmons

Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public. — Paul Emsley

It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try. — Keith Rabois

Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself. — Jaleigh Johnson

When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance. — Dean Koontz

How can we succeed, if we never try?
It is only by trying that we can reach greater heights. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Jamie: Are you trying to seduce me? Landon: Why? Are you seducible? — Nicholas Sparks

I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself — Haruki Murakami

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want. — Jeremy Jackson

I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous. — Jessica Alba

There's no way to be sure," Irene said. "The biggest threat is giving up hope. If he decides there's no chance to survive, he'll stop trying. — Andy Weir

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless. — Ryan Cabrera

I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest. — Kristen Hope Mazzola

Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived. — Vernon Howard

Stop
trying to do what's right and do what feels good for you. You're fucking overthinking everything again. — Cora Reilly

If you're looking for messages, try Western Union. — Ernest Hemingway,

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes. — Natalie Babbitt

I'm trying to build something where people will go every day. — Max Levchin

She shuddered. What is it with slobbery kissers? Are they trying to drown us in spit? I mean, Jesus, swallow every now and then. — Tammara Webber

The big thing is I try not to repeat. — Robert Barry

Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he! — Matthew Arnold

But when the sun goes down? We're all just stumbling through the darkness, trying to outlast another night. — Tessa Dare

There were many peddlers like her among the prisoners: women who were only trying to make a living by selling vegetables, which was against the law. — Anonymous

I try to be my own player. I really haven't modeled my game after anybody. — Jacoby Ellsbury

The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have. — Kenneth More

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine. — Jaggi Vasudev

As long as I try, there's always a chance of getting up. It's not the end until you give up. — Nick Vujicic

But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story. — Rob Walton

Why do we try so hard to make Jesus cool?! He doesn't need a makeover. — Matt Chandler

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed. — Edward Abbey

You can spend a lifetime trying to erase memories. It doesn't change the fact that they took place. Acceptance is the key. — Truth Devour

I am trying to get closer to God. — Lenny Kravitz

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian. — Chris Kyle

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable ... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song. — Kristian Bush

I've been doing a lot of stuff that has to do with charity and giving. I'm trying to give and not take as much. — Mark Indelicato

I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard. — Pep Guardiola

Fang! Angel? i yelled, not even trying for stealth. i was storming the castle, not stealing the jewels. — James Patterson

Being an American in Australia isn't easy,
but I'm trying to integrate, I'm trying to fit in. — Billy Marshall Stoneking

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. — Jacob M. Braude

I've thought of all the questions," said Father.
"That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones. — Orson Scott Card

I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids. — Master P

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic. — Frank Miller

You will never achieve a goal by definition unless you try. — Auliq Ice

We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better ... we never get satisfied. — George Harrison

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action. — Christopher Lambert

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself. — Kevin Costner

I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new. — Michael Trucco

More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made. — Irwin Winkler

No amount of trying to inhale one more shred of inspiration is going to make it any easier to put your heart and soul out there. — Christine Kane

She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover. — Simone De Beauvoir

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK. — John Malkovich

We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there. — Auliq Ice

We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off. — Michael O'Leary

Try not to write the parts that people skip. — Elmore Leonard

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere. — William Dean Howells

After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on. — Gloria Estefan

E.Biscom is an Internet company that is diversified, not a diversified company that is trying out the Internet. — Silvio Scaglia

We're not trying for perfect - we're aiming for posh shabby chic. — Rachael Lucas

Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers. — Mahatma Gandhi

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone. — Margaret Thatcher

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job. — Jada Pinkett Smith

I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels. — Dizzee Rascal

Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more. — Stephen Malkmus

He'd already chosen his mate. It was too bad she was trying to arrest him for f***ing murder. — Annie Nicholas

If you turn people away enough times, eventually they stop trying to find you. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done. — Flannery O'Connor

Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well ... — Joao Magueijo

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs. — Gregory Harrison

Rest, rest, rest, rest, rest. Nutrition is obviously very important, but rest is equally important. At rest is when your body is trying to recover. — Misty May-Treanor

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world. — Alexei Sayle

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living. — Colin Mochrie

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not. — Swami Vivekananda

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. — Charles Lamb

Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover. — DJ Spooky