Trying Quotes

Worrying is trying to figure out what to do to save yourself rather than trusting in God for deliverance.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

The storm: I close my eyes and, standing in it, try to make it mine.

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.

The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.

I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years of teaching and I hope my students have benefited from it.

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.

A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.

Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on

Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

I don't know that I feel comfortable playing a villain; as a matter of fact I probably don't feel comfortable, which is why I like it so much. It's just an opportunity to try something different.

I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

The bank...is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!

I try changing my surfing, which is the absolute worst thing you can do. Everyone surfs their own way. If I try to surf like someone else I look like a dork.

Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.

Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it's important to know that whatever we do has an implication and has an effect, and because of that it is political.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

It’s like, you know, it doesn’t matter what you do, even if you try to replicate an experience down to every last detail, it’ll never be the way it was when it happened naturally the first time.

I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style.

Instead of trying to specify a system in full detail, specify it only somewhat. You can then ride on the dynamics of the system in the direction you want to go.

I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me to the audience as best I can.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

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

Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.