Trying Quotes

• Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.

  

  Todd English
  • Kids
  • Passion
  • Force

• I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Trying
  • Advantage
  • Idiom

• Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.

  

  Arthur Chapman
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Giving

• I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.

  

  Lil' Kim
  • Live
  • Trying

• Most of us are flawed, complicated people, and we're all trying very hard to disguise that or hide it from the public. Ultimately, we respond to someone who's capable of doing heroic things but has issues or problems in their life that they can't seem to resolve. I believe audiences identify with that. All of us have those secrets and those things that we wish we could improve about ourselves. And when you have someone who's heroic and flawed, I think it makes us feel better about ourselves.

  

  Treat Williams
  • Wish
  • Problem
  • Secret

• Cosmetic companies are trying to turn India into a nation of Albinos. No dark area on any part of the body. Except maybe our hearts. Got a cream for that?

  

  Shekhar Kapur
  • Heart
  • Dark
  • Body

• From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.

  

  Michael Urie
  • Acting
  • Perspective
  • Projects

• One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

  

  Francois Rabelais
  • Trying

• If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • Trying

• As you stop trying to forcibly manage the thoughts, beliefs and actions that arise from your mind and ask instead to be guided by a source greater than yourself, you will find a world of support showing up in surprising ways.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Trying
  • Behinds
  • Eyelids

• There is nothing more important in my life than my relationship with God and my faith. I have been so driven to my knees to pray for His guidance, for His wisdom, for His grace and for His Strength. I'm never going to tell anybody else how to live, I'm never going to preach to anybody else and tell them you must do that. But I sure would like to see more Americans give it a try and seek the guidance that our Founding Fathers sought and were able to then craft documents that allowed America to become the greatest, strongest, healthiest, most prosperous nation on earth.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Important
  • Father
  • Earth

• I have quite a close relationship with violence and horror. They are enjoyable and terrible. I try and offset the horror with a sense of satisfaction or humor. You can't write a book that is entirely dark without having little spots that hopefully make you laugh out loud.

  

  Evie Wyld
  • Book
  • Dark
  • Violence

• I had a certain kind of disassociation from the other kids because I had more interest in sociology, ideas and trying to communicate those ideas to the kids around me.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Kids
  • Kind
  • Interest

• We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.

  

  Wendy Whelan
  • Teaching
  • Movement
  • Revealing

• Half delirious, I slipped my hands around Whit's thick neck. The second Idid he got confident.His mouth moved over mine in a rough, unpracticed, awkward back-and-forth motion, so fast it was as if he was trying to create fire with our lips.

  

  Kate Brian
  • Moved
  • Mouths
  • Awkward

• You can't really yell, 'Charge!' and hope to have your team behind you unless they agree that the hill you are trying to take is a hill you should take.

  

  John Delaney
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Team

• I'm a dreamer. I watch people. You don't try to become them because you could never become any of those guys. But you hope that some of it, you know, comes off on you at some point in your show, some point in your writing, that it happens to you and this light just shines on you.

  

  Raphael Saadiq
  • Writing
  • Guy
  • Light

• Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.

  

  William J. H. Boetcker
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Energy

• Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Trying
  • Writer
  • Reader

• Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Problem
  • Information
  • Labels

• We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

  

  Cat Power
  • Trying
  • Mistake
  • Persons

• For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Politics
  • Knows
  • Taste

• Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything other than he is. He isn't fooling anybody per se.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Trying

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