
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Marilyn Monroe
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Suzanne Collins
You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.

Albert Einstein
You never fail until you stop trying.

Bette Midler
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

Leo Tolstoy
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

J. K. Rowling
Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.

Kurt Vonnegut
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

William Gibson
The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

Aung San Suu Kyi
I look forward to trying the Internet.
Orhan Pamuk
One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.

Suzanne Collins
You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.

C. S. Lewis
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
Orhan Pamuk
'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is Red,' or even 'The Museum of Innocence,' because the secular leaders didn't want this bourgeois Orhan trying to understand these head-scarf girls.

Lady Gaga
Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

Aung San Suu Kyi
I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

Suzanne Collins
There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.

Bob Marley
The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

Gordon B. Hinckley
You have not failed until you quit trying.

Kurt Vonnegut
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Umberto Eco
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Johnny Cash
I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

Steven Spielberg
'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

Roseanne Barr
You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.

Nicholas Sparks
I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.

Marilyn Monroe
Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

Lady Gaga
And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

Joseph Conrad
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

Robert A. Heinlein
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

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

Suzanne Collins
Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive.

Charles Lamb
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Nelson Mandela
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Jason Mraz
You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

Charles Bukowski
Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

James Joyce
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Plato
I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

Nick Hornby
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.
Michael Palin
I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

Madeleine Albright
Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Booker T. Washington
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Jorge Luis Borges
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

William Ralph Inge
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Lady Gaga
I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

Haruki Murakami
So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

Louisa May Alcott
Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

Margaret Atwood
And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.

Barbara Kingsolver
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Kurt Vonnegut
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

Madeleine Albright
The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Michael Jordan
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Elton John
What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.
Daisaku Ikeda
Life isn't always smooth. If it were, we would never grow & develop as human beings. If we succeed, we are envied; if we fail, we are ridiculed & attacked. Sadly, this is how people are. Unexpected grief & suffering may lie ahead of you. But it is precisely when you encounter such trying times that you must not be defeated. NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER RETREAT!
Michael Palin
When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through.

Hillary Clinton
I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

Sir Michael Caine
I just try to play more and more difficult roles.

Mae West
JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.
Woody Guthrie
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.

Daisaku Ikeda
True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

Hunter S. Thompson
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.

Pablo Picasso
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Sandra Bullock
The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren't trying.

Megan Fox
Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.

Hillary Clinton
I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

Megan Fox
Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

Lady Gaga
I just I felt like a freak, I guess what I'm trying to say is I want to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can create their own space in the world

Azar Nafisi
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Elton John
It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.

Tina Fey
Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

Jim Morrison
We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us

Sandra Bullock
I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

Mick Jagger
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

John Steinbeck
I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.

Mike Pence
I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

Megan Fox
I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down.

Michael Palin
I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.

David Byrne
I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

Richard Dawkins
What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

Natalie Portman
I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

Megan Fox
When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties.

Salma Hayek
Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.

Natalie Portman
I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.

Tupac Shakur
All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

Zooey Deschanel
For those of you who thought you'd be forgotten, The friends you've made will try their best, to make it so. Think of all the beauty that you left behind you. You can take it if you want it, and then let it go...

Jack London
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Sandra Bullock
Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

Alice Walker
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

Natalie Portman
I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».

Marilyn Monroe
Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

David Foster Wallace
I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.

Arthur Miller
Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

Robert Louis Stevenson
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Albert Camus
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

Victoria Beckham
You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

Jennifer Lawrence
You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to crack it open.

Steven Alexander Wright
People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

Cate Blanchett
I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.