Trying Quotes

• I'm sick at myself for not winning more. But I am always trying to find ways to make myself a better player. I am not just turning up to make up the numbers.

  

  Luke Donald
  • Up
  • Player
  • Winning

• This is what I would call old politics. This is the stuff we're trying to get rid of. Because the problem is, when we start breaking down into conservative and liberal, and we've got a bunch of set predispositions, whether it's on gun control, or its' on health care, any attempt to do health care is socialized medicine.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Control
  • Health
  • Gun

• The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Long
  • Party
  • Fighting

• I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Trying

• Instead of trying to increase your metabolism with the goal of losing weight, try to slow your metabolism with a low-calorie, high-nutrient diet for a longer, healthier life.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Life
  • Trying
  • High

• The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Hours

• I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Trying
  • High
  • Risk

• What we need is competition for places. We are certainly trying to engender that. When we name the final squad you could find that yes there might be a few established players left out of the squad. We'll find that out over the next two or three weeks.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Competition
  • Place
  • Squad

• You can't type what a lesbian is. We're anything and everything. The one thing in common is that we make love to other women. So give up trying to limit us.

  

  Amanda Bearse
  • Trying
  • Lesbian
  • Limit

• I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Experience
  • Kids
  • Song

• As a child actor, you experience a lot of depression and anxiety... Yes, I went through depression, and it was not comfortable. Yes, I struggle with anxiety and being paranoid, trying to figure out who I am.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Experience
  • Struggle
  • Depression

• People like to pigeonhole. People like to label - not just books and movies, but everything in their life. If people want to call me 'literary horror,' I guess that's fine. What I'm trying to do is be both thrilling and thought-provoking.

  

  Benjamin Percy
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • Kind

• We got happy just taking the threes. After a tough game (a 95-89 loss at Detroit on Friday), you may not have the leg strength. That was key. We were trying to penetrate and kick. The shots didn't go down. Just don't blame it on shooting. You can never blame a loss on shooting. It's what you do defensively.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • May
  • Happy
  • Game

• It's so easy to become caught up by, 'I've got to do this,' or, 'I've got to do that,' and most of the times, the best stuff comes from when you are not trying to do anything and when you let go.

  

  Johnny Simmons
  • Up
  • Trying

• I'm just trying to create characters and tell stories.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Trying

• We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage.

  

  David Neeleman
  • Mind
  • May
  • Party

• So many of my friends are actors, and so many of them are great, and they're losing jobs to people who have never been in plays before; I understand that sometimes I'm part of the problem. But I'm trying to figure out how to balance it.

  

  Anna D. Shapiro
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• I don't like the fact that people are supposed to think horror movies have a way things should go. I always try to do the exact opposite of what people expect and want.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Horror

• I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

  

  Jennifer Gilmore
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Author

• If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Truth
  • Ifs
  • Truth Is

• A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

  

  Colleen Moore
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• I love trying new things.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Trying

• Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

  

  George Carlin
  • Good
  • Trying

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