Trying Quotes

I just go out there and try to help my teammates any way I can. They are on me a lot to be in the lineup and do stuff for the team, but sometimes it's just...frustrating.

When you're taking your one-thousandth selfie of the day that might be the moment you try to kill the person by lethal hugging!

I love doing voice-overs; I wish I could do more of them. It's a lot of fun to see how they take the voice and animate it and try to capture your own expressions and features. It's fascinating.

Obviously you try to keep as much of your private life as private as you can.

It becomes tricky, and you start to think about the cramps rather than just actually what you're trying to do on the court, which is obviously win the match.

I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.

I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to have a good time.

I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.

If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.

I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.

With political means and always trying to work for political settlements and this is what I'm going to continue to work on with all my heart.

I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing first hand what's going on.

I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

I try to laugh at whatever life brings.

Imagine you're a girl, just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they'd prefer you were dirty and smiling.

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.

I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.

I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to

Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.

I love the question-and-answer. I love to see liberals try to thrash their way to a coherent argument. And actually, I think it's fun to debate.

What I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds.

I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.

If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?

I try not to read newspapers when I have a movie coming out, but I guess I'm not immune to public opinion. I'm hurt by it.

It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'

I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.

I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance

Yeah, I guess I'm economical. Not because I try, but because I'm really not that interested in shoes.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.

Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.

Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?

And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.

When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.

I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.

Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; any good lie does.

I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.