Quotes about try

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“My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone…. The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”

“… only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.”

“Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”

“Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.”

“I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.”

“My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.”

“Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.”

“That’s when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God’s watching you, knowing that He knows you’re trying to be strong to please Him.”

“No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.”

“It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.”

“Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.”

“The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.”

“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”

“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right…The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.”

“All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.”

“Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.”

“It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.”

“Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.”

“I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.”

“Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more an nothing less.”

“No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.”

“I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.”

“There is only one reason I did not go down in flames over the Angers, and that is because I knew I had Julie in the back. Would never have had the presence of mind to put that fire out if I hadn't been trying to save her life.”

“Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.”

“Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.”

“Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning and there is so much to see.”

“If you die of pneumonia, I'm pretty sure there are at least a dozen guys who'll try to kill me and make it look like an accident
(Hale)”

“So, I want to try to spend more time with Dad."
Abe glanced at Rose."You see that?" He said. "Now that's devotion." She rolled her eyes at him.”

“This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.”

“Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.”

“All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.”

“You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.”

“Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.”

“I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable”

“Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.”

“It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.”

“To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.”

“My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.”

“Simon was still trying to work out how Shadowhunter government and also Shadowhunter family trees worked. They all seemed to be related to each other and it was very disturbing.”

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”

“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”

“And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.”

“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.”

“I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.”

“No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.”

“What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.”

“You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.”

“The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.”

“Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.”

“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”

“It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.”

“If I didn't know better, I'd think you were trying to get me drunk," I said to Ranger.
"Not drunk," Ranger said. "Just relaxed and naked.”

“[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.”

“I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.”

“Half delirious, I slipped my hands around Whit's thick neck. The second Idid he got confident. His mouth moved over mine in a rough, unpracticed, awkward back-and-forth motion, so fast it was as if he was trying to create fire with our lips.”

“You can't save everyone, though God knows you try.”

“The more you know, the more you try to change them, and that can be disastrous.”

“Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.”

“I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.”

“Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.”

“What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.”

“She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.”

“I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.”

“You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?"
"It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize."
"Must be a human thing."
"Exactly.”

“Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp.

“I can’t,” he says.”

“We have to be able to criticize what we love,
Say what we have to say,
'Cause if you're not trying to make something better,
Then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.”

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”

“Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.”

“Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”

“Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.”

“Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate."

"I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!”

“Geoff: We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.”

“We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.”

“If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.”

“Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.”

“There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.”

“I am exhausted by trying to get along with the Lord.”

“… If you'd like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left”

“I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez”

“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.”

“Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”

“Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.”

“Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.”

“If you drive a car, I'll tax the street;
if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.”

“Teach you to try marrying me, you idiot!”

“If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives,
then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls.
You think their ways are wrong.
They think you are dinner.”

“In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.”

“Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.”

“Hey Baby.
Baby? You're kidding me, right?
I was trying it out. No?
No.”

“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”

“However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again.”

“For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.”

“English is the product of a Norman warrior trying to make a date with an Anglo-saxon bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.”

“Go to faeries for gossip about vampires, to werewolves for gossip about faeries, and do not gossip about werewolves, because they try to bite your face off: that was Magnus's motto.”

“Of course they didn't give us this much, Sage. But I had to make sure I nailed my first assignment. Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try.”

“We are all unkind from time to time. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.”

“Nah. I got it. Just try not to stake Jean-Luc again if you meet up with him. (Acheron)
I can’t help it. All you fanged people look alike in the dark. (Tabitha)
Yeah. I know what you mean. All you soul-full people look alike to us, too. (Acheron)”

“Remember this your lifetime through:
Tomorrow there will be more to do.
And failure waits for all who stay
With some success made yesterday.
Tomorrow you must try once more,
And even harder than before.”