Top 100 No Matter How You Try Quotes
#1. Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
Rita Mae Brown
#2. You can only do what you can no matter how you try.
Kobo Abe
#3. It's terrible to know that no matter how you try to help your child, his condition will worsen.
Emily Susan Rapp
#5. No matter how you try to make the world a better place, the first step always starts with helping each other.
Magith Noohukhan
#6. Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.
Lisa Kleypas
#7. Breaking news gently is a misnomer. News doesn't break, people do, no matter how you try to cushion the blow.
Erica O'Rourke
#8. Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.
V.C. Andrews
#9. If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
Ben Carson
#10. And grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away, and the person so real, so beloved, becomes a dim, slightly out-of-focus shadow.
V.C. Andrews
#11. Perhaps all the science-fiction stories he read about time travel when he was a teenager had it right: you can't change the past, no matter how you try.
Stephen King
#12. No matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore. You're left with this pile of kittens lolling all over one another.
Haruki Murakami
#13. I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing.
Mike Young
#14. The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.
Jodi Picoult
#15. No matter how much you try to do things your own way at all times, you can always be thrown for a loop.
Shamara Ray
#16. Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from the approved idea is (another) gravely serious time-waster. This is your story. Try and find out what your editor wants in advance, but then try and give it to him in one piece.
John Creasey
#17. No matter how hard you try, you will never be able to carry the world. So you need to get it off your shoulders before you break your back. (From Night Marchers book 2 coming soon.)
Rebecca Gober
#18. No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross
Matsuri Hino
#19. No matter how well you think you've hidden, you'll always leave behind a trace. And the more you try to hide that trace, the more obvious and troublesome it will become.
Gosho Aoyama
#20. You know," he said, his voice making me feel cold in spite of the heat, "this city can get ahold of you and pull you back no matter how hard you try to climb out. Like a grave.
Neal Shusterman
#21. The basis of the Philosophy of Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. ( ... ) The Philosophy allows for only one result: we fail the Standard.
Niall Williams
#22. You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try
Sarah Dessen
#23. No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you.
Tess Gerritsen
#24. I think you've got no choice but to suffer more. It was your job to save people's lives. You weren't allowed to make mistakes. But nobody's perfect, and we all make mistakes at some point in our lives, no matter how hard we try. But every time we do make a mistake, we have to learn from it.
Minari Endou
#25. She finally understood that, no matter how hard you try, you can't make someone love you. You can't stop them from making the wrong decision. There's no magic for that.
Sarah Addison Allen
#26. But sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.
Kristin Hannah
#27. There are some things you can't unsee, and there are some movies you can't get off IMDB no matter how hard you try.
Kurt Fuller
#28. Love does not solely belong to one person. No matter how hard you try, if the feeling is not mutual, it'll be fruitless.
Jin Sun Mi
#29. Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out,
and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened,
can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.
Alice Hoffman
#30. I meant does it hurt when you hide every last shred of your individuality and self worth behind acres of silk and cups of powder and smiles that never, no matter how hard you try, reach your eyes?
Melissa De La Cruz
#31. Strive to be the best you can be ... focus, watch, listen, and learn. Try never to be satisfied with 'good enough' ... and above all, love what you do-share that passion with others, and always stay humble. Nobody likes a 'big head' no matter how good you are.
Robby Naish
#32. The best lies are always flavoured with the truth but if the substance is rotten, it will stink no matter how much you try to disguise it.
M.R.C. Kasasian
#33. No matter how hard you try, it's just never good enough for those that want to see you fall.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#34. No matter how hard you try, after the Day there will always be a Night ...
Luis Marques
#35. Whatever you do, whatever you redo, it all ends up here. Some things are just unavoidable. No matter how hard you try, the things meant to go to shit still go to shit. Terrible things happen, Micah, and you can't stop them. You just can't."
So you just do more terrible things.
Amy Zhang
#36. And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can't stop
yourself from dreaming.
Jenny Han
#37. That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.
Carlton Mellick III
#38. I know one day I'll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window's gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow - I would not care. I feel like I've lived, I feel like I've had a great life.
Tom Ford
#39. Don't give up! I believe in you all.
A person's a person, no matter how small!
And you very small persons will not have to die
If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!
Dr. Seuss
#40. The doorbell rings and I sink into a heap on the carpet. With any luck, whoever is down there will just go away.
But I'm just starting to think nothing goes away, no matter how deep you try to bury it.
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
#41. There's something about those secrets that only the deceased person can rightly understand. Something that can't be explained, no matter how hard you try. They're what the dead person has to take with him to his grave. Like a valuable piece of luggage.
Haruki Murakami
#42. trust is a fragile thing, like a fine piece of rare china on display in an antiques shop. Once it's broken, the pieces never quite fit - no matter how carefully you try to glue them together.
Laura Markovitch
#43. Never," said Gregor. "I'll never get rid of you, no matter how hard I try." It was no longer an effort to say the words. "I love you."
"I love you, too," said Luxa.
After that there was nothing left to say.
Suzanne Collins
#44. We meet. We always meet, somehow we're always thrown together, no matter where I go, no matter how I try to distance myself from you. It never matters. You always find me. - Lauren Kate, Fallen
Lauren Kate
#46. I shook Alan's hand and the feeling just grew stronger. It was a bit frustrating. Like when you're looking for what to say and it's on the tip of your tongue, but no matter how hard you try, it just keeps eluding you.
Pamela Alvarado
#47. The secret of success is to try always to improve yourself no matter where you are or what your position. Learn all you can. Don't see how little you can do, but how much you can do.
William Walker Atkinson
#48. One does not divine this by impressions or knowledge. What this means is that no matter how much you try to figure or calculate by means of impressions or knowledge, it will not prove the least bit useful. Therefore, separate yourself from the discrimination of figuring things out.
Takuan Soho
#49. The greatest wonder is never being able to know what will happen next. No matter how hard you try, the future will always be ahead of you.
Debbie Shapiro
#50. [She] was juggling a lot of crap. And sh it is incredibly difficult to juggle. No matter how hard you try, it still falls apart and slips through your fingers, and even when you're managing to keep it aloft, it still stinks.
Amy Harmon
#51. no matter how hard you try. They have to want it as bad as you do or there is no hope.
Anna Todd
#52. I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
Ethel Waters
#53. No matter how much you try, you cannot change the future. You cannot change. Not really. That's the problem with optimism, with hope. You end up disappointed.
Lexa Hillyer
#54. It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
Douglas Coupland
#55. And things change, she remembered, no matter how hard you try to hold them in place.
J.D. Robb
#56. But there are some kinds of love that you can't lose, no matter how hard you try. So there's no need for him to be afraid.
Chelsea Fine
#57. You are my siren," he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. "My temptress ... my sorceress ... I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.
Sarah MacLean
#58. And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?
George W. Bush
#59. While it was understandable to be afraid, and no one would expect you not to be, the worst thing you could do was to run from the trouble you had caused. No matter how accidental it was, you didn't try to deny it. You didn't run. You did what you must to right it.
Terry Goodkind
#60. If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.
Mark Sheppard
#61. And if there is one last thing I would have you know before we reach these final pages, it's that sometimes, no matter how hard we try, no matter how hard we want it to be so, sometimes there is no such a thing as happy ending.
This is my ending. This is how i burn.
T.J. Klune
#62. Never try to live decently, boy - not unless you're willing to open your life to tragedy and sadness. Live like a beast, and no event, no matter how harrowing, will ever be able to move you.
James Luceno
#63. Red blood is just so hard to clean up"
"You would know" I snap remembering Shade. "Because no matter how hard you try to hid it I see it all over your hands
Victoria Aveyard
#64. No matter how hard people try break you down, or whoever tries to stomp on you. You will always have the same value. No one can change you.
Rain
#65. Feelings are murky, contrived and confusing. And the worst thing about them is no matter how hard you try, you can never sort them. They tangle more and more with thinking.
Saru Singhal
#66. You can't control the perception of others no matter how hard you try. Do things that promote personal growth and health.
Melanie Iglesias
#67. No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it.
George Carlin
#68. When you first take someone's life, two people die. The person you just killed and the human
being you used to be. You're never the same after that - it changes you forever and not in a good way
- and no matter how hard you try, you can't go back to the innocence you had. Ever.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#69. Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.
Phil Jackson
#70. I try to give everyone options because no matter what you think you're going to wear, what you actually put on depends totally on how you feel.
Kate Hudson
#71. I try not to read reviews because I know how sensitive I am and how debilitating it is and how it follows me around. If they're bad, you feel terrible, you feel worthless, no matter if you think they're wrong - and if they're good, it feels cheap and sleazy because you went looking for it.
Thao Nguyen
#72. It's said that you can never go home again, and it's true enough, of course. But the opposite is also true. You must go back, and you always go back, and you can never stop going back, no matter how hard you try.
Gregory David Roberts
#73. No matter how hard I try to forget you, you always come back to my thoughts
When you hear me singing I am really crying for you.
Jane Bierhorst
#74. Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that's always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone,
Fredrik Backman
#75. Love always finds you, no matter how hard you try to avoid it. It knows your hiding places. It's smarter than you'll ever be.
Katie Kacvinsky
#76. There is always a reason to live, no matter how you might feel right now. There are always people who care about you, people willing to listen and try to help you. If you think you don't have anyone, you're wrong, because you can call me, here on this show. I care and I'll listen.
Stacia Kane
#77. No matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong.
Zayn Malik
#78. Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
Bear Grylls
#79. I don't remember much, which is a kind of mercy,I suppose. I see it in patterns.
Sometimes it's like a scribble on a wall- no matter how many times you paint over it, a bit of it always comes through, but not enough to put together the whole.
I try not to think about it too much.
Amitav Ghosh
#80. If you can't quit no matter how hard you try, then you have a chance to succeed.
Laura Fitton
#81. No matter how much you reach the moon...you can never actually grab it. Even if one knows that something is unreachable it's human nature to want to try over and over...again and again..not giving up...not able to give up...dreaming that someday that hand will reach the moon.
Kiyo Fujiwara
#82. If you're honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.
Joe Clifford Faust
#83. This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past. It was like the past was the future.
Kathryn Davis
#84. But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.
Brandon Sanderson
#85. These seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot tell them apart from other flowers. They will never turn into roses or sunflowers, no matter how much they might desire to. And if they try to deny their own existence, they will live life bitter and die.
Paulo Coelho
#86. No matter what, no matter how hard we try ... why do I feel like I'm going to lose you?
Brittainy C. Cherry
#87. No matter how hard you try ... you just can't buy other people their happiness. It must be installed inside them first!
Timothy Pina
#88. You may not know what the outcome will be, but you have to try to give yourself a future, no matter how long it takes. You have to hold on to hope.
Peter W. Smorynski
#89. No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.
Karen Marie Moning
#90. No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.
Ray Bradbury
#91. No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.
Hiroshi Ishizaki
#92. There's always this one girl. She's desperate and she's weird and she's jealous, and you're stuck with her, no matter how hard you try to get her off your back. Just throw some really fucked-up self-esteem issues into the mix and you have Kara.
Courtney Summers
#93. If you want you can die any way you want, but no matter how much you try you cannot live the way you want.
Amit Kalantri
#94. Everything had to be in order for you, everything had to make sense. I hope you've learned that some things don't make sense, no matter how hard you try to make sense of them.
Angela Benson
#95. You can never control a wild heart no matter how hard you try.
Christian Coma
#96. But I do agree with Mr Findlay about one thing: I am desperate to paint, so it's probably time to start. Because you can plan all you want, but most of the time, the ideas come when you're working. And no matter how much you try to control it, you'll still paint it wrong before you paint it right.
Kirsty Eagar
#97. Some things the gut distills to their essence no matter how hard you try to factor in compassion and mercy and understanding. One of them killed the other. And there is violence in my heart.
Karen Marie Moning
#98. No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
Brian Greene
#99. So I did something I've never done, and put your live above my own, because no matter how hard I try to convey it, I'm not heartless. I have a heart and... and it beats for you.
Emma Winters
#100. Ladies, no matter how hard you try, a man will never complete you. Only God can. And if you don't know your identity in Him, you'll be lost forever.
Deborah N. Kabwang
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