Trying Quotes

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change.

There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing?

Of course I'm a publicity hound. Aren't all crusaders? How can you accomplish anything unless people know what you are trying to do?

Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.

I see a little better grooming. Some might even be trying a little powder.

Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.

The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on being the best player I can be, trying to win Major Championships and contributing to what will hopefully be a victorious European side at the forthcoming Ryder Cup Matches against the USA.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.

So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.

I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.

Obama and the Democrats are not focused on the moderates. They're focused on getting their base out, and they're trying to expand that base by forming sympathetic, empathetic alliances with the downtrodden, and there are a lot of downtrodden because Obama has made them that way via his policies.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.