Trying Quotes
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The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.
D. J. MacHale
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If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.
Taylor Swift
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I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.
Alek Wek
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I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.
Wendy Davis
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Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.
Ellsworth Kelly
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I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
Edgar Wright
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I'm not around real dead people all that often - most people aren't - but when you are, you tend to be very, very respectful and quiet, and people do tend to whisper 'cause you're trying to show massive amounts of respect, but if this is your daily life, you have to figure out a way to go about it and not go insane by the time you reach Friday.
Brian Dietzen
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If you are trying to be happy and trying to be kind, you've already won.
Ben Falcone
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Here we are out here, me and you.Reaching out to each otherIs all that we can do.Here we stand trying not to fall.There's no need to worry,Love will conquer all.
Lionel Richie
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Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
Joshua Lederberg
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Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.
Jayne Anne Phillips
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I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.
John Travolta
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I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
AJ McLean
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Because I lost a daughter, eight years old, to cystic fibrosis, I think that anytime that I'm dealing with people who, like Andrea Yeager, are trying to help those sick children, I identify very much with them.
Frank Deford
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You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.
Jess Weixler
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That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.
Kristin Hersh
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There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
Barry Mann
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I wasn't trying to be famous when I started making music. I mean, that wasn't the first thing I wanted.
G-Dragon
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We are sure the upshot of her visit will be not only a narrowing of our positions on many international problems but also a new impulse to the development of our relations, ... Both sides are trying for exactly that.
Igor Ivanov
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One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible.
E. J. Hughes
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I always think of writing as a physical thing. I'm not trying to generalize, it just happens to be that way with me.
Nelson Algren
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The CD is now the wax album and so it is a collector's item for people who collect music and love to look at the liner notes and feel paper. I don't know what would turn them on about having to go through that terrible exercise of trying to open the packaging - it's unbelievable when you're trying to open a CD, right? You need a box cutter .
Stanley Kirk Burrell
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What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.
Najib Mikati
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Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
Elizabeth Wurtzel