Trying Quotes

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over the place.

Don't try to fine-tune somebody else's view.

I try to hold my charisma in check.

Here's Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting

The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.

I think the main thing that we have to do is try and train ourselves to remember from moment to moment that God is living within us and within everybody else, and just trying to remember to see that.

When somebody does something which everybody really wants to do, then it makes everyone else try a little bit harder and strive for something better, and it's good.

Generally in my films like Hearts of Darkness or Picture This, I try not to make myself a presence in the film.

There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can be fresh again.

I thought [first girlfriend] was trying to make a fool out of me. Then I found out that she wasn't, and we went out. That's a very good example of how little confidence I had.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

I think it's important for Americans to try to understand each other a little better.

A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.

The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.

Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet.

I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave.

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

My go-to default is to try to be nice, which I feel does less harm in the long run than trying to be, say, assertive. If I am nice and maybe too passive, I find that easier to live with.

If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you’ll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.

It's one thing to be a perfectionist when you're alone, but when you're trying to make it work in an ensemble that's a whole different deal.

I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.

When somebody you've known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can be huge. I think in a sense what you're trying to re-create in fiction is that.

With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.

I try to keep my artistic opinions not so much "to myself" but "on myself."

I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that whatever weirdness was going to be in there, I felt, had to be earned. And it had to be required by the emotional needs of the book.

Conservative activists want [Stephen] Bannon, somebody who has spent much of the past two years trying to destroy speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.

We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.

People try to live their lives without consequences and end up living lives of no consequence.

Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.

I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.

These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would be better off if we did leave.

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

She's just trying to make sure Anthony gets a good meal - Antonio.

I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university.