Trying Quotes

I can resist you or flee from you or try my hardest not to respond to you, but it makes no difference. You fall in love with me, and I with you". Daniel to Luce Page 352

Some truce," Daniel said, "Eighteen days of others trying to kill her.

And books are such an empowering way to give voice to some of these kids who aren't yet ready to tell their story. Or don't know what their story is, or are trying to figure it out.

Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.

You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist

I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him

We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.

I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain.

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.

If the extrovert is trying to "cheer up" the introvert - extroverts are programmed to seek social rewards! - he or she may feel like a failure if the introvert remains unmoved.

I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.

I try to give to most legitimate requests, but the amount of my contribution and my personal time varies greatly.

It is lunacy to be bringing refugees into this country who may be terrorists trying to murder Americans.

Trying to turn the Congress the President on the Iran deal, - it's one thing to do that - it's a giant moment in Israeli politics to decide to do that.

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

I only work in relation to what the work is about. Yes, of course, if the world's coming to an end I would basically try to get out of the way when the sky falls.

My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

I don't try to rap about or emulate the life of another person.

I know you can't go back, so I try to do all the things other teenagers do.

I should try to be strong, but baby, you're the right kind of wrong.

I don't earn my money from trying to hurt people or get in the tabloids.

We were playing every game to win, we just happened to win 27 in a row. Our motto was to try and go out and win every game, but there's nothing really to talk about.

My family is happy. That makes my job a lot easier. For the fans, I try to put it all out there on the floor.

I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.

At the end of the day, my hat goes off to anybody trying to run for president, or trying to be president, because you're never going to please everybody, it's not possible.

The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.

I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

I try not to sleep with every girl I see, but it's hard!

I try to be straight when I communicate with my audiences through a film. I'm not sure whether I have been successful. I don't watch my film once they're in theaters.

I try to live in the moment, every moment.

I’m not trying to satisfy anybody but myself and the role that I’m playing.

I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame.

I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things - that's the beauty of fashion.

Don’t try to be anything but yourself, and find success as yourself. Otherwise, you won’t be happy.

There's no sense in trying to be or look like anyone other than yourself.

My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.

On the dance floor, as much as you say, 'Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only go where he takes you,' they still try to be in control.

I try to keep myself in the best of company and my horses in the worst of company.

In mine, they were just trying to steal a briefcase of cocaine.* That's it. Some flour that I got out of my mom's cupboard.

Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

I think vulnerable is something you should always be. [It] makes you open to each experience. I try not to see vulnerability as a negative.

I just live my life and try to be present.