Trying Quotes

• From the smallest misdemeanor up to the biggest crime, everyone is brought before a judge. And that means there's a huge backlog in the American legal system. There are prosecutors and public defenders and judges who are trying to keep their head above water in the tide of this bureaucracy and red tape.

  

  Clare-Hope Ashitey
  • Up
  • American
  • Water

• Every time I'm preparing a new production, I'm trying to reinvent my style and offer the audience several choices.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Time
  • Style
  • Choices

• There are certain things you don't say that's disrespectful. They detract from the point you're trying to make.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • Trying

• I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters.

  

  Martina McBride
  • Trying
  • Husband

• And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Life
  • Want
  • Shapes

• If I read a script and I like it, there's nothing that will stop me from trying to be in that movie.

  

  Brenton Thwaites
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • Stop

• Whenever you do a film, it's always like a little miracle. So many people getting together trying to do something so that the audience can be entertained.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • People
  • Together
  • Miracle

• My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Mistake

• Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers - you know, lying on the ground and trying to have my spirit leave my body - which never happened; still working on that bit.

  

  Alice Englert
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Magic

• Growing up, I didn't think it would be possible to be an actress - I didn't see a lot of Latina faces on TV or in movies. But that didn't stop me from trying. I realized early that anything I really wanted was worth working for.

  

  Andrea Navedo
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Stop

• I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.

  

  Dat Phan
  • Struggle
  • Abundance
  • Unlimited

• If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.

  

  Bryan Fuller
  • Trying

• Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.

  

  Jean Piaget
  • People
  • Society
  • Education

• Mysteries always have the potential for interesting connections between the elements. I'm also most interested in the relationship between the characters. As in 'Masterpiece,' I'm trying to create characters who not only are solving a mystery but are solving the riddle of their own personal relationships.

  

  Elise Broach
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Relationship

• Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.

  

  Daniel Greenberg
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Hope

• This is a lesson about life: This is one person. This is another person. This is one person trying to understand another person, even though it doesn't have room to download the other person into it's brain. It cannot understand the other person, even though it tries to. So he ends up overflowing with knowledge.

  

  James Owen Sullivan Avenged Sevenfold
  • Brain
  • Ends
  • Downloads

• If you're trying to get to the underworld of Berlin, it's not suits and ties; it's rock and roll.

  

  David Leitch
  • Trying
  • Rock

• I'll say it again: you've got to put the argument back in the game. They're trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine. They're ruining baseball.

  

  Doug Harvey
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Baseball

• Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

  

  Leigh Steinberg
  • Long
  • Today
  • Hair

• At the end of the day I see myself as a communicator. So any way that I can, any medium, any art form that I can use to communicate the truths of the Lord and scripture and my passion, then I'm going to do it. I don't know, I may do a spoken word piece one day, or I may turnaround and try to write a short story. I don't know, it just depends, but anything artistically that I can use I'll try to do it.

  

  Tedashii Lavoy Anderson
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Passion

• I kept trying, proposing, pushing... If you want to succeed, you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately, many things were left half done. The choice was made not to launch a second wave of economic reforms that I was proposing.

  

  Emmanuel Macron
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Done

• I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

  

  Colin Mochrie
  • People
  • Trying

• There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.

  

  Anne Carson
  • English
  • Greek
  • Metaphor

• It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.

  

  Liz Phair
  • Trying
  • Journey

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