Trying Quotes

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.

Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.

All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such a Luddite.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.

Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair.

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.

The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

America's trying to do the best for its veterans.

Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well.

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.