Top 1200 Trying Times Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't

Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

People ask me all the time, "What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett?" It's like, "No, I'm trying to do me." Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.

There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.

If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.

I've chosen to live my life in love and that has made even the most trying times beautiful experiences.

We're always trying to really ground it, and I use this term a thousand times, it's a score I want people to feel and not necessarily hear.

I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them into big times and save the times that are all right for the ones that aren't so good.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

I'm a risk taker, so I have come to accept that at times I will fail. To me, that is better than not trying at all.

I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.

And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.

We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.

I still feel I am that 14-year-old kid, hungry and trying to find a way through life. That's what I'm trying to develop, trying to be good at something through boxing. But I feel like that young kid who's trying and trying.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life - looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.

I don't enjoy trying things on, even though most times it's necessary. I tend to only shop online, which is so dangerous for me.

I'm constantly trying to invent different ways to do things. If you're going to be a television executive, you have to change with the times.

I've been told many times that I should give up trying to find balance in my life, but I refuse.

I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.

When we are trying to have a normal dinner out people with their Instagram accounts are relentless and it's profoundly obnoxious at times.

At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.

I've discovered if you have a small circle of people you know you can rely on - in good times, bad times, happy times, sad times - who aren't going to judge you and will, sometimes, just sit and listen to you without saying anything, then I think you're very fortunate.

In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.

I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.

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.

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

Too many actors are trying to be cool: they're trying to do it with their hair, trying to do it with the color, trying to do it with clothes, or some bullshit attitude you're either cool or you're not, that is my theory. If you have to try, it is too late.

Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.

I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.

We need to make a change while there’s still time, it is hard, and at times I struggle trying to reveal mine.

In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.

If I'm feeling down, I'll fake smile. I'm trying to trick my brain into being happy. It might work one out of 50 times, but I'm getting there.

A lot of times, when I'm approaching pre-production and my job, and trying to research and work on the script and whatnot it's always different.

I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.

There are a lot of times I have seen someone fight, and I think the guy is tailor made for me until they actually get in the ring with me. Fighters that are more aggressive match up better with me. There is really no defense when a guy is trying to get you. When a guy is trying to get you, you cannot get him, which makes the most compelling fight.

I know how valuable relaxation is for us all, especially in trying times, so I couldn't be more glad to lend my voice to a sleep story.

You have times when you are extremely happy, times of testing, and times of trial, but the Lord guides you through all of those growth experiences together.

I'm not trying to change things in the world and trying to use my leverage to do so. The only thing I'm trying to change in the world is that I'm trying to increase the amount of useful information in it. And entertainment, honestly.

There has been times when you play in charity games where you have friends and you always entertain the idea of playing with each other and trying to team up.

When you grow up as a minority in a majority culture, a lot of times, you're just trying to fit in.

Most of the times, aggression will drive your enemy to do something that you are trying to prevent.

Hard times have been on Josh Barnett. Dealing with athletic commissions. Everybody's saying, 'You did this and you did that. You're the problem for this.' That's hard times. Hard times on my family. Hard times on my friends. Hard times on me.

I'm trying to get better on and off the golf course at all times so I think it's a work in progress all day long.

Weirdly, I was still trying to be the older brother, and trying to get him [Tom Berninger] to try to be more like me a little bit. Or not be more like me but... I was frustrated that he sometimes let things stop him in his life, and he let the wind get knocked out of his sails a few times.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse, 10 times as ignorant, 10 times as unfair and tyrannical, 10 times as complaisant and pusillanimous, and 10 times as devious, hypocritical, disingenuous, deceitful, pharisaical, Pecksniffian, fraudulent, slippery, unscrupulous, perfidious, lewd and dishonest.

I'd heard other players talking about dark times when they were trying to get back from bad injuries.

I busked a few times in Asheville, North Carolina, when I was 18. It was terrifying. I was probably just trying to meet girls.

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

These aren't joyous times when we have war in Iraq. These are challenging times, and they're difficult times, and they're straining the psyche of our country. I understand that.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.

Stress comes from trying to achieve, trying to do something, trying to keep up with the events of the world, the speed of the world, and trying to accomplish, to produce results.

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.