Trying Quotes

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?

Writers must constantly ask: what I am trying to say? Surprisingly often, they don't know.

Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish.

Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction.

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

I want to help people to not feel alone, like I feel and have felt for so long. Everybody's just trying their best. I guess I'm like an anti-star.

I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than standing on a stage and trying to get people to understand something.

I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.

Actual patriotism has to do with loving a place enough to try and improve it.

I try to just pay attention to what I'm feeling. If something is scary to me, then that's sometimes a good sign - although, sometimes it's not.

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.

I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.

I'll try anything once.

People are trying to grab every part of you, so it's really hard to focus.

As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

You have to remain positive and just try your best and part of that is doing things that continually surprise people, including yourself, so that you don't get pigeon-holed.

I know the American administration is trying to refurbish its image after Irangate, especially in the Middle East and among their friends in this area. No doubt about it. We are following it.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization.

I always try to go back and check my old stuff. It's like watching the tapes of the game. You want to go back and go as hard as before.

My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.

We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.

I knew that the right person for Crossroads would come along if we were just patient and made sure that we didn't try to force anything.

My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it's the only way you can test how far you can really go.

Its not that I'm in love with myself, I'm just trying to pick up everyone else's slack.

I've been doing som jogging at home recently and every time I try the distance I end up beating his time with like three or four seconds.

My dog has a cough. If you've never seen a dog with a cough, I recommend trying to find one. It's hilarious.

It's just people trying to get on TV, not like it's really going to do them any good since people can just watch me.

I'm 26 years old, and I've spent my whole life waiting for something else to start. Now I realize that this is all there is, and I'm going to try to live my life like that.

I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.

People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.

I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

I just try to remember my lines most of the time.

I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.

I don't believe in compromise, I believe there is a goal we are trying to reach.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.

Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

I love acting. And if there's a niche that needs filling, I'm happy to get in there and try to fill it.

When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.

Being home is like a vacation to me, so I'm trying to get my home together.

Sometimes I think that kids who are given junk food then don't crave it as adults in the same way. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what the psychology is behind it before I have children.

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.