Trying Quotes

The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.

Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them?

People who say "it is impossible", should not interrupt those who are trying to make it possible.

Life is confusing. We're all just trying to get on with it, that's all.

You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate.

I don't really step out the house trying to make a fashion statement. I step out the house making sure I'm comfortable.

The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must do everything badly.

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams.

Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.

Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something to see if we can shake things up.

I try to stay away from the L.A. scene as much as possible. I feel it helps me to better prepare for my roles if I am not too involved in that whole thing.

We are not trying to solve the world's problems... However, even in the midst of hatred and killing, there are things worth living for. A wonderful encounter, or a thing of beauty can still exist.

Everything should be considered as a gift of God. When anything wrong comes to you and you think it is a gift, it won't stay with you. Do you know that? Try it sometime.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.

A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things - maybe he's just trying to be like his daddy.

I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.

Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!

By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.

Tied one on last night. Not feeling great this morning. I was trying to sleep it off, unfortunately, it was on the casino floor.

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more like what the Democrats actually are.

There are two things that people [are surrounded by and] avoid trying to understand. One is music, and the other is electricity.

I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.

Some people put us down. But I still haven't heard of any Americans trying to swim across the border into Mexico!

Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.

Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'

Whenever I'm onstage, I try my best not to think that I'm performing. It's simply another part of my day.

The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better.

I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way.

Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

To truly try is to give all you have, when you have nothing left.

I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.

Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.

I'm a great thief. I like to lift stuff and play it better. The real trick is taking whatever you've stolen and trying to do something different with it.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.