Trying Quotes
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Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.
Anthony Fauci
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I was so ashamed of it that I would spend hours in the shower crying and trying to wash my skin off.
Khoudia Diop
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British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question.
W. C. Sellar
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Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.
Steve Albini Big Black
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My favourite riposte to a heckle is to say, 'Excuse me, I'm trying to work here. How would you like it if I stood yelling down the alley while you're giving blow jobs to transsexuals?'
Paul Merton
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The show has boundaries right now we're trying to widen them not break them.
George Eads
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Any UFC fighter, and any fighter going into the boxing ring and can do what they do in the UFC, nine out of 10 won't be victorious and vice-versa, with a boxer coming from - even myself - coming over to that field will be a fish trying to be in a jungle and survive. It's not going to happen.
Bernard Hopkins
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I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.
Astrid Lindgren
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I just don't like showing everything I've got. I don't want to look like I'm trying too hard to be sexy.
Elisha Cuthbert
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We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.
Jalal Talabani
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Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.
Serinda Swan
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All I'm really good at is making music and singing and doing this. I'm not good at fashion, so I don't see a point in trying to be good at that.
Alessia Cara
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
Agnes Varda
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We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in.
Kelly Preston
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I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.
Boy George Culture Club
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He gets bored with the effort of trying to think, and is unhappy because he knows thinking, or at least 'thinking-to-a-purpose' is on the black list of party activities.
Brian Aldiss
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A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
Anthony Hecht
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What we're trying to do at Yahoo is build our products so they're safe and trustworthy, not just secure.
Alex Stamos
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We are trying to find drugs, small molecules, that people could take to make them disease-resistant, more youthful and healthy. Eventually we will find them.
Cynthia Kenyon
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Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.
John Lee Hancock
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The greatest failure is the failure to try.
William Arthur Ward
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Training a horse is above all feeling and trying, according to what you feel, to help the horse and not to force him.
Nuno Oliveira
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We are playing with a lot of confidence right now and we believe in each other more than ever. We are looking forward to trying to get in the playoffs and make something happen.
Allen Iverson
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I'm not really a helicopter dad or tiger dad per se. If anything, I try to not do that, but I get anxious while I'm trying to be relaxed about raising my kids.
Ken Jeong