Trying Quotes - Page 436

To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

Most actors don't know what they're going to do next, so you get into this thing where you have to force yourself to have another life outside of acting. And then, as soon as you start something in this sort of normal life that you're trying to live, you get a job. So you have this constant struggle because you want to be able to commit to things and to finish things in your life, but then you also want to be able to act.

My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because my family was really there for me. I think I just felt like I really wanted to hold on to who I was as a person, and try to have as much of a normal life as I could.

It's weird because I think of movies like Reality Bites or something, where, even though my life was nothing like that, I hadn't done something contemporary for a while, and it's easier. You do try to make something your own.

I try to just pay attention to what I'm feeling. If something is scary to me, then that's sometimes a good sign - although, sometimes it's not.

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.

Actual patriotism has to do with loving a place enough to try and improve it.

If I was a cabinetmaker or a commercial fisherman, it would be the same question - how to connect to my world. The job we do affords us the opportunity to have people listen to what we say. But a lot of people have a similar situation: They're trying to find a way to do some good.

I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.

I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than standing on a stage and trying to get people to understand something.

I want to help people to not feel alone, like I feel and have felt for so long. Everybody's just trying their best. I guess I'm like an anti-star.

I never actually sexually attacked anybody. But I'm a writer, too, and I was always trying to figure out a way to recreate the experience of being this Albert Camus, Stranger-like solitary protagonist character without incriminating myself in any way, like, "Oh, what a perv!" I want to reach out to anybody out there who may have been riding on the train one time when things in their life were completely falling apart and saw a girl's legs in a skirt and it's the last bit of goodness that you can see.

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction.

I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go over it once more, reading it aloud, and am always amazed at how much clutter can still be cut.

Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish.

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

Writers must constantly ask: what I am trying to say? Surprisingly often, they don't know.

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?

Don’t waste your time trying to get into my head. There's nothing there.

Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die.

Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.

Let the end try the man.