Trying Quotes

Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country.

A failed Iraq in the heart of the Middle East will provide safe haven for terrorists and extremists. It will embolden those who are trying to thwart the ambitions of reformers.

We'll continue to speak out in a respectful way; never challenging somebody's love for America when you criticize their strategies or their point of view.

Being a father and trying to love my daughters with unconditional love - those were all good decisions.

I would like to remembered as President as somebody who did not compromise principles in order to try to be loved or liked.

What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.

I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

I didn't try to be something I wasn't.

In terms of trying to re-create an image, I think that's a waste of time. I have no interest in doing that. The decisions I made are done.

I try to live a faith-filled life. I'm a believer.

I think that not criticizing my successor is a statement unto itself, in terms of trying to create an environment where people are able to have a meaningful discussion or debate without trash talk.

The American people have got a touchstone: Which party voted for the tools necessary to protect America and which party didn't? And that's what I'm trying to get people to focus on.

We believe in peace. We strongly believe in freedom. Where we see suffering we will help. And rather than try to offset a nation, why not join nations together to achieve kind of big objectives?

We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.

I think if we have a policy of zero violence, it won't be met, but the policy of getting the Iraqis in the fight and marginalizing those who are trying to stir up trouble will be effective.

They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance of freedom.

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

I think you're just always trying to find really great, interesting female roles. That's the thing for me. You do have to think about what you're signing up for.

Try finding love, rather than finding fault.

Very well. I shall try to think like an idiot.

Most people our age have the whole "dating game" [mentality] of trying to sell yourself or be strategic.

It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

When I listen to my scene partners and listen to their breathing allows me to be connected to them in scenes. I am not trying to multi task, not trying to talk on the phone, but in my character.

For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin.

I can only control what I do. I can try to suggest and be open, but trust is the key.

I'm still trying to be a kid. I really don't want to feel like an adult.

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.

In the end, love is growing up. We feel so much stronger since we are together in this life, than when we were before trying to figure it out alone. Love is all!

I’m trying to accept where I’m at, not run from it.

I've gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time that's a good way to explore L.A.: you can drive to a restaurant and discover a new neighborhood.

I try to not go over things from the past. Learn your lessons and then let it go.

I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.

Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.

Although I did end up trying out several different fields before committing to acting, I knew in the deepest part of heart that I wanted to be an actress.

So that's where it differs for me now, it's the creativity, versus, the raunchiness from back in the days. So I just try to be more creative nowadays.

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.

He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.

The music is in no way politically based - I'm not trying to make a point about sampling. It may bring up issues but I'm not trying to push it on anyone.

I guess in a way I try to avoid being labeled as a traditional DJ.

I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.

I guess people naturally try to find meaning in music.