Trying Quotes

Republicans are already trying to paint Hillary Clinton as too old to be president. In fact, a new ad claims she’s so old that she could be a Republican.

I may not agree with everything, but our President, just like President [George W.] Bush did, is trying to do his best under difficult circumstances.

I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.

I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.

You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try?

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

Each Desaparecidos's song has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

I take all the negatives and try to turn it into a positive.

When I am working, I am working. When I am promoting, I am promoting. The rest of the time, I try to stay under the radar a bit.

I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate.

It's sort of cliche, but when you're playing drunk, your character is trying to appear sober.

It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it.

This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up

Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.

You're trying to just leave the world a little better.

We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head.

If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.

I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.

I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain.

I'm afraind of losing my sense of trying to always be better. I love competition against myself.

Sometimes there are four or five cameras in front of your face moving all over the place, and you have to try to see the person in between the cameras, and a sane person would go, "I can't do this."

It's better to have won & lost than to have won, stopped trying, & descended into alcoholism.

He's a little deceiving. He doesn't have a real good arm slot as far as trying to pick the ball up out of his hand. He made some pretty good pitches when he had to.

Personally, I hope he doesn't get out of the campaign. I need Rick Perry. I don't want to spend the next year trying to do jokes about Mitt Romney.

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

I think I'll be Scottish in every movie I write. They always try to talk me out of it, but Woody Allen is always a nebbish New Yorker. Why shouldn't I be a goofy Glaswegian?

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

That's the thing about terrorism - it works. Especially for the terrorists - they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.

I try and live my life in bite-size chunks.

I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully.

I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.

Being on a microphone nightly has made me better at what I do, made me better able to sing a little bit, but also more confident at trying it.

There's a lot of ways to be honest that don't necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that's something I absolutely try to do.

Everybody is talking and everybody is trying to block things out, but eventually you just yell, "Action!," everybody starts moving, the camera starts going, and you get a take.

President Bush is in the hot seat over Iraqi pre-war intelligence. Remember the good ol' days when the only thing the president was trying to cover up was a stain?

President Bush is trying to put a positive spin on the latest bad economic numbers. Today he declared victory in the 'War on Jobs.'

Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.

A person dies every second, but there’s also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind.

Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before they happen. It's more architectural in a weird way.

When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit.

My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

I believe in trying foods from all over the world, going to markets and finding jewelry and furniture and just treating myself well. It's important for me creatively to travel.