Trying Quotes
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I find it so ironic that all you do, for the earliest part of your life, is try to be like everybody else. And then you turn 30, and you realize all you want to do is distinguish yourself in some way.
Sarah Jessica Parker -
If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good.
Michael Oher
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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 -
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
Casey Affleck -
You cannot score 10 goals from 10 shots - that's impossible - but I am trying.
Mohamed Salah -
As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.
Geoff Rickly -
There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
Terence McKenna -
I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.
Shiloh Fernandez
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I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing.
Rupert Friend -
I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.
Michael Sandel -
People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.
Heather O'Neill -
I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.
Mike Epps -
I was prepared to get knocked out myself trying to knock him out, because then I could sleep at night knowing that I've given my best.
Carl Froch -
The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.
Myrtle Reed
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Literally, I just love food and I like going to dinner with big groups of people so you can try everything.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine -
What Clinton wants is to enforce trade policy, she wants to triple the number of trade enforcement officers, which will really matter in trying to level the playing field with South Korea and China and other countries that don't play it straight.
Sherrod Brown -
I'm going to live forever, or die trying !
Spider Robinson -
What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?
Carol S. Dweck -
I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than standing on a stage and trying to get people to understand something.
Willis Earl Beal -
Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction.
Willie Parker
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They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.
Ned Vizzini -
During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.
Richard Feynman -
The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical enough to gain mental enlightenment. Before that, they kept falling asleep when [masters] were trying to teach them.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen