Trying Quotes

• I do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law, or if I think there has beenperjury or injustice, I will weigh the petition most carefully, but I do not permit myself to be moved by more harrowing details, and I try to treat each case as if I was reviewing it or hearing it for the first time from the bench.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Thinking
  • Mistake
  • Injustice

• I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.

  

  Crystal Waters
  • Trying
  • Integrity

• When Filch wasn't guarding the scene of the crime, he was skulking red-eyed through the corridors, lunging out at unsuspecting students and trying to put them in detention for things like "breathing loudly" and "looking happy.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Red

• I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

  

  Barbara Ess
  • Reality
  • Photograph
  • Seems

• It's just a continuous process, trying to work through it, trying find that comfort zone and go from there. That's kind of where I'm at. I feel pretty good about where I'm at.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Experience
  • Free
  • Reading

• I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Trying
  • Wells

• I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women - don't forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Great
  • Women
  • School

• 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.

  

  Jamie Oliver
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Cooking

• Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.

  

  Chris Daughtry
  • Trying
  • Goals

• Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.

  

  James Chanos
  • People
  • Up
  • Simple

• A new report says ISIS is trying to recruit professionals like doctors, engineers, and accountants. Sorry, kids, even ISIS says they're not hiring liberal arts majors.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Kids
  • Sorry
  • Doctors

• I casually advise a few young companies, and I'm always surprised when I see them overthinking simple problems, adding too much structure too early, and trying to get formal too soon. Start-ups should embrace their scrappiness, not rush to toss it aside.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Trying
  • Simple

• If someone in going to die anyway without an operation, then you have nothing to lose by trying.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Trying
  • Die

• It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

  

  Charles Erwin Wilson
  • Trying
  • Past
  • Control

• Chip is like that kid, like the five-year-old kid that's trying to make his mom breakfast, and there's milk everywhere.

  

  Joanna Gaines
  • Trying
  • Mom
  • Breakfast

• Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You're not in charge.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Stop
  • Destiny
  • Steers

• I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Vegas

• True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • True
  • Strong
  • Mean

• I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

  

  Sean Bean
  • Guy
  • Decent
  • Compassionate

• It's been a bit tricky trying to establish a 'designer' profile and not a designer-cum-girl-around-town.

  

  Phoebe Philo
  • Trying
  • Girl

• Marriage is a big word for all guys,” Shane said. “You know that. It’s kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Marriage
  • Guys
  • Allergy

• I never learn. Like a waitress will bring my meal. Hey, enjoy your meal. You, too. But you don't have one, do ya? I'm a dufus. If you do eat enjoy it when you eat it if you have a break or something, later. If you get an opportunity. That's all I'm trying to say.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Opportunity
  • Enjoy
  • Break

• If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.

  

  Alexa Vega
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

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