Trying Quotes

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?

Whatever the situation at hand, thats what Im dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

What tries to break us is endlessly fascinating to me. Joy is a whole different game to express.

Conflict is a great thing to start with. For me as a songwriter, I am constantly trying to solve problems.

All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

Trav, if you cross us -- " "I know. You'll get me. I'll try not to pee all over myself in terror.

Don’t,” Michael said. It was soft, and it was a warning, through and through. “You try to hurt her again and I’ll pull your arm off.

Oh, try not to sound so much like Mom—you don’t have the ovaries" (Monica Morrell - Last Breath)

Marriage is a big word for all guys,” Shane said. “You know that. It’s kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.

It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!

President [Barack] Obama - he was unsuccessful in his efforts to raise the federal minimum wage, but he still used the Labor Department in other ways to try to boost paychecks for American workers.

I liked that about her. I liked how laid back she was, when she wasn’t trying to stab me.

I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.

I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

To the degree we try to create peace around us, we will find peace within ourselves. And to the degree we find peace within ourselves, we will actually have the power to create peace around us.

We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

I always try to enjoy the game. It is easy to say but it's true. Every game is different, sometimes you feel better inside you but you have to enjoy your game.

As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my god, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

Sometimes, I see and hear stories, especially those that involve children, and I wonder if this is hell and we are trying to get into heaven.

Kids are great in that they keep you on your toes. They're like a puzzle... in a blender, haha. You have to take the pieces out and try to put it together on the fly.

When I'm in the studio I just try to zone out and not think of whatever is in the industry, if it sounds too much like someone else, I have a tendency to erase it.

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.

In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.)

I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.

As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He starts condemning people, he starts humiliating people.

Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire.

Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual, they will have a quality of sexuality.

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.

I try not to eat too much beef. I try to eat healthy.

I just try to eat as good as possible.

I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

If I have a weakness, it's that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.

I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.

I'm here in Whoopi Goldberg's office trying to choose some shoes. We've seen [Marco] Rubio has those cool new boots and I don't want to be outdone.