The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
~ Cullen Hightower
People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari - like they're trying to land the trophy.
~ Henry Cloud
I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.
~ Jane Fonda
I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.
~ Ll Cool J
You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good.
~ Clint Eastwood
Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?
~ Jonathan Haidt
I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.
~ Ryan Lochte
I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.
~ Clare Balding
I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.
~ Jason Isbell
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
~ Gilbert Parker
No connection to the average voter - Clinton has an air of superiority. Despite her wide smile and pleasant appearance, she is envisioned as someone who is trying to hide something all the time.
~ Fabrizio Moreira
Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.
~ Jerry Lee Lewis
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.
~ Martin Parr
I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.
~ David Duchovny
In the pre-production process, I am emailing with the actors or jumping on the phone, and we're sort of figuring out who the characters are and trying to build the relationship dynamic and things like that. Then, also, I am outlining.
~ Joe Swanberg
Trying to make something as tricky as 'Room' really believable is extremely hard, and it largely rests with that relationship between the actors and the director, and the director and the crew.
~ Lenny Abrahamson
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 had to overcome while trying to succeed.
~ Booker T. Washington
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
~ W. Clement Stone
Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.
~ Eric Ries
I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
~ Omari Hardwick
It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.
~ John Cusack
I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.
~ John Burnside
Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.
~ Jonathan Galassi
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.
~ Andrew Motion
I studied poetry in college and for a year in an MFA program. As time went on, my poems got more and more complicated. What I was really trying to do was tell stories.
~ Jennifer Mcmahon
I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that.
~ Ntozake Shange
I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.
~ Serena Williams
For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it.
~ Andy Murray
Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
~ Cliff Burton
We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.
~ Les Brown
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
~ Mickey Mantle
I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!
~ Joaquin Phoenix
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
~ Noam Chomsky
I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.
~ Joel Osteen
If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.
~ Katherine Paterson
Some officials overseeing local water systems have tried to go above and beyond what is legally required. But they have encountered resistance, sometimes from the very residents they are trying to protect, who say that if their water is legal, it must be safe.
~ Charles Duhigg
Every wedding is slightly different from the other. But you always get to meet the funny uncle and the weirdo relatives, and there's always someone trying to beat you up for not playing enough Beatles songs or something.
~ Jens Lekman
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
~ Quentin Tarantino
