Trying Quotes

• I've been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom's death into a healthier perspective. I really need to let her go, let her go into the infinite. I can't keep hanging onto this rope that connects us.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Death
  • Mom
  • Balance

• While I support making improvements in the Affordable Care Act, trying to enact them while holding the government and our economic recovery hostage is reckless and irresponsible.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Trying
  • Support
  • Recovery

• You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control.

  

  Jeff Gordon
  • Up
  • Work
  • God

• I try to get on stage whenever I can. I'm always trying to be involved in the theater, doing something on stage, whenever I have downtime. I'm always looking for it.

  

  Scott Bakula
  • Stage
  • Theater
  • Downtime

• Trying to defeat an ideology by killing individuals is like trying to save a marriage with a blowjob. It might buy you some time, but in the end it'll just suck. 3.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Marriage

• I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Shapes

• Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Blunder

• When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

  

  Cris Judd
  • Trying
  • Dance

• Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

  

  Dennis Muren
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Done

• Every time I try to disown that concept for myself, which is a really healthy perspective, they bring it back all the time. It's so serious and so real and so tangible that you don't want to taint it with anything other than the thing itself. I was tickled pink with my very zen self, walking around saying that I made a record because I wanted to make a record. That's so beautiful. It's like a haiku poem. That takes away all the tension and the expectation. I just want to try to do something interesting.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Real
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• In a long poem or a sequence of poems, you're trying to formalize your obsessions and give them a shape and a name. The key is to realize if the connections you are making are ones with resonance.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Long
  • Trying

• By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heaven

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

  

  William Stafford
  • Way
  • Injustice
  • Reactions

• I'm definitely trying to make songs that people can sing along to and remember. If you can recognize a chorus and leave with it in your head, it's usually a good sign. But then with the verses, I can get a little more free form. I don't really like to copy and paste things.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • People
  • Good
  • Remember

• A lot of people have said that I'm trying to be like Justin Bieber by wearing a hat all the time. But the truth is, I don't like the way my hair looks. It's kind of weird, so I wear a hat all the time to cover it. I've been doing it since I was thirteen.

  

  Austin Mahone
  • People
  • Time
  • Truth

• I feel like when you say 'activist,' you have to have so much clarity, and I don't always necessarily have so much clarity on how I want to help others, I just have this weird, deep urge to help other people. I'm trying to let God guide my body and use it as whatever kind of vehicle or vessel it needs to be.

  

  SZA
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Career
  • Wonder
  • Model

• I was taken to court for trying to travel on a child ticket to Glastonbury '97. I was, and still am, 6 ft. 5.

  

  Jack Thorne
  • Trying
  • Taken
  • Travel

• We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

  

  Neville Chamberlain
  • Good
  • Power
  • War

• I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • People
  • Trying

• I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

  

  John Key
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Strong

• The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • Career
  • Beginning
  • Challenge

• It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Law

• When you're working in the business and you are genuinely trying to do what's right for consumers, and you're trying to genuinely do what's right for suppliers, but the word doesn't get out, the word doesn't get heard because frankly the media is not interested because it hasn't got a conflict attached to it.

  

  Ian McLeod
  • Trying
  • Business

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