Top 1200 Trying Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.

Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.

I'm not trying to represent all Muslim women. I'm trying to give voice to the silent majority. Unfortunately, I'm a bit loony.

I think you set up certain standards. I've always kind of believed in the Neil Pert way of making records where I'm trying to step it up every time I do something. You're trying to better yourself. You're also trying to make your audience or your listeners more interested. So, if you can up it, I think that's important.

Trying to demonstrate good leadership was not our raison d'etre. We're still just trying to make a comedy.

When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

I am a believer in trying to treat people properly and trying to respond and making sure that I find the time to be courteous.

Someone once accused me of trying to turn the sitcom into an art form, and I really believe that's what I was trying to do.

We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity

I will be happier if I crash by trying than not trying and running around behind the same guy for 70 laps.

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

When a storm blows, you must stand firm. For it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.

I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

Trying to erase 53 years of being a macho aggressive guy to trying to be a woman, and this is greatest challenge of my life.

Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

If you're injecting fear into other people, then you're trying to kill their minds. You're trying to get them to stop thinking.

All my life I'm trying to go forward and trying to grow.

Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible.

By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.

Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.

I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.

People make a mistake saying I'm trying to break down barriers and change the game. I'm not trying to do any of that.

I'm not trying to prove myself, and I'm not trying to shock anyone.

Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.

There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.

Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.

Who are we talking about? We're talking about the people that are trying to criminalize Donald Trump. We're talking about the people that are trying to impeach him. We're talking about people who are trying to via innuendo and leak and media assassination, we're dealing with people that are trying to destroy Donald Trump and his press secretary just signaled that they are serious about reaching out to these people to try to get certain things done, legislatively, like infrastructure or tax reform.

I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commercial! That is not a good reputation to have when you're trying to be a working actor.

We're not trying to be everything for everybody. We're not trying to please the masses.

We're often accused of trying to manipulate opinion or that we're trying to elevate society. I think that the greatest thing we can do is to give you a vacation.

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.

I made a lot of mistakes growing up, trying so hard to fit in. I got so lost trying to please everybody.

I'm not trying to have no surgeries because I'm trying to impress somebody and I end up hurting or tearing my labrum or rotator cuff.

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

I'm trying to do different music, and I'm trying to be out of the box.

I'm just trying to be myself. I'm not trying to be anyone else.

I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his successor, presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. The second is that he's trying to pad his legacy. The third is that he's trying to 'troll' or bait the GOP into debating his agenda rather than pursuing its own. All are plausible, and none necessarily contradicts the others.

If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you won't reach them or will quit trying.

I can't do tricks, but I absolutely loved trying, and one of my fondest memories growing up was trying to imitate Ronaldinho and do his dance.

I have progressed. I have worked a lot in front of goal, trying to keep a cool head, trying not to force things.

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.

Football and school don't go together. They just don't. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs.

Get your work in, do what you need do, and get back up top. I'm a little bit behind the curve as far as not really having a spring training, so you're trying to get your work in, trying to work on things, and at the same time, you're also going out there trying to be competitive.

Stylistically, we're trying to push things in different ways, but it always comes out sounding like Tool no matter what we're trying to do.

I'm not trying to convey a message, I'm just trying to tell a story.

We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied.

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.