Trying Quotes - Page 68

Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.

Everyone's just a freak, but some people are trying to hide it and some people embrace it.

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I learned that a lighter-gauge string offers superior playing comfort ... try it, you may like it.

I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.

Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'

Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again.

I am certainly not perfect. I don't think you should try to be perfect for anyone. When you come to terms with that, then you're OK.

If you never tried you will never know. Anyway we are going to die why dont we try our best

I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in the process of playing these four strings is to try and understand the people I meet, the stories they have to tell. And then become an advocate for them and their stories through music.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

I'm trying to make the perfect dance, that's what drives me.

I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts

As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

But you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive.