Trying Quotes

I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa

If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

I knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and had a great time doing it.

[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful and unconstitutional.

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.

Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd much rather have relatives than a book.

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

I'm trying to create artwork that makes people, and myself, think about judgment as a reflex. This is something that must be changed.

Hip-hop is always moving. It's always looking for the next style; it's always trying to one-up the last person.

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country.

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

It's difficult to plan this kind of career. You just need to wait and be picky and try not to commit to just one thing. I'll have to see what's next, see what happens, and see what the future brings.

I never go to a gym unless I have to for a role, a contract. I try to take care of myself as a human being, not because I have to be in front of the camera.

My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

Imagine trying to relive your worst break-up, your worst fight, the most painful death of a loved one, and just really relive it step by step, and bring it up and apply it to the scene you're in.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still be a writer without remembering why, on some visceral, emotional level.

I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.

I run a lot. I love running. I try to run at least half an hour a day.

When I'm shooting, I just try to make sure I wouldn't be embarrassed of it later, because in Watertown, you don't get away with anything.

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

I definitely try my best not to stay in character when I'm not on set, which can be more difficult in some roles than others.

I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is were trying to do for families.

Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.

I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.

There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.

Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat

All the parts of us that we ever were are always going to be with us. You make space to carry them and you just try not to let them drive. But you can't chuck them out either.

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process.

That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.

She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.

So, you're telling me that no matter what, you can't be happy? Well, darling, it's no wonder you're miserable. It's what you want...So then try (to be happy).

Try not to catch a girl when she's not in a great mood, tired or distracted.

It is so hard trying to say what you mean.

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.