People Try Quotes

#1. I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

Talib Kweli

#2. People try to put us down
(Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we get around
(Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold
(Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Hope I die before I get old.

Pete Townshend

#3. The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention you get and the more threatening or dangerous you appear to people. And the more people try to knock you down.

Gerard Way

#4. Most people try to get rich by being cheap and the price for that is that you live cheap and there is so much money out there; why would you want to live cheap?

Robert Kiyosaki

#5. Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Claude Debussy

#6. When people try to read between the lines - critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than it is.

Chris Rock

#7. I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.

Ira Glass

#8. Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.

Frank Pittman

#9. I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

Tim Tebow

#10. I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.

Mark Hoppus

#11. There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.

Francois Fenelon

#12. If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Jack Lemmon

#13. People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it - that nothing compares to being champ.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#14. People try to accept themselves in order to be different, and try to surrender themselves in order to have more self-respect in their own eyes - or

Alan W. Watts

#15. Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.

Mark Vonnegut

#16. What I noticed about L.A. is that people try to hit on you in your car. It's incredibly creepy to be in a car and have the guy next to you roll down his window.

Jessica Lucas

#17. People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

Jaron Lanier

#18. People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.

Johnny Knoxville

#19. People try to live their lives without consequences and end up living lives of no consequence.

George W. Buck

#20. People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

Leo Tolstoy

#21. The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.

Tim Ferriss

#22. When people try to rain on your parade, ... pee on theirs

Josh Stern

#23. Today is April 1, April Fools' Day, a day that people try to fool their friends and relatives. Don't confuse that with April 15, when people try to fool the IRS.

Jay Leno

#24. I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.

Alan Alda

#25. When dealing with overly critical people, try to see past the arrows to the struggles that launched them.

Craig Groeschel

#26. I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.

Benjamin Carson

#27. Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism.

Jomo Kenyatta

#28. For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Lawrence Durrell

#29. Look at the way people try to make points of contact with others when they meet. Look at the way you instinctively try to establish whether somebody you meet for the first time knows somebody you know.

Alexander McCall Smith

#30. Some people try to climb the ladder of success, while others try to jump on it

Josh Stern

#31. 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

#32. You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

Avril Lavigne

#33. They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,
and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.

Woodrow Wilson

#34. People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

Ray Bradbury

#35. I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.

Iris Apfel

#36. For some reason, people try to fill you with food when you're filled with grief. I didn't need food. I needed a reason to keep living

Priscille Sibley

#37. Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?

Jeanne Moreau

#38. Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

Sean Penn

#39. People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

Curt Flood

#40. Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

Bell Hooks

#41. We don't escape our pasts, you know," Madd said. He sounded defeated. "Never. We can never escape what we are."

"Maybe not. But I think we can escape what other people try to make of us. We can decide our fate for ourselves.

Tali Spencer

#42. When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.

W. Edwards Deming

#43. Too many people try to do the new job, new spouse, new house, new car thing in 18 months. That's a good way to end up broke. We've got to resist the temptation to catch up with our parents in 18 months. Slow down. You have the rest of your life to play catch up. After all, it's just stuff.

Dave Ramsey

#44. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.

Dave Barry

#45. A true pilgrimage requires letting go of the very things most people try to hold onto. In seeking after what the soul desires, we become pilgrims with no home but the path the soul would have us follow.

Michael Meade

#46. No matter who else is mourning, you're in your own little cell. Even when people try to comfort you, you're aware that now there is a barrier between you and them, made of the horrible thing that happened, that keeps you isolated.

Jodi Picoult

#47. In baseball, I don't fraternize with players when it's time to hit. I'm preparing for the game. It's the most important time of the day. And I know if I don't hit, I won't have a job in the big leagues. That's why I tend to get very upset when people try to talk to me.

Albert Belle

#48. I try not to worry about other people's music. But if there's one thing that I hear these days, it's that people try and put [music] down so tight that they take all the color out of it.

Tim McGraw

#49. Codependents: don't trust themselves. don't trust their feelings. don't trust their decisions. don't trust other people. try to trust untrustworthy people.

Melody Beattie

#50. People try to make sense of things, and if they don't know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.

Ann Aguirre

#51. People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

Eugene Cernan

#52. I find it funny when people try to brag about being younger than me ... like having lived less is an accomplishment. Makes me want to pat them on the head, lol. I'm comfortable with who I am.

Michelle M. Pillow

#53. I'm an audience member first. My inspiration is still based on hunger. Often, when people try to tell me "nobody wants that story; I'm like bullshit because I want it."

Victoria Mahoney

#54. Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

Vince Lombardi

#55. Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!

Philip Schultz

#56. What is 'weird' anyway?" Frank asks thoughtfully. "Other than things bland people try to label to make themselves feel superior.

L. H. Cosway

#57. But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Baden Powell

#58. The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.

Rick Warren

#59. It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

Jeb Bush

#60. It's important not to insist that people try things against their will. The palate is for pleasure, not for obligations.

F. G. Haghenbeck

#61. I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

Jean-Francois Chevrier

#62. Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

Will Oldham

#63. When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.

Dodie Smith

#64. Put me on telly, and I think I have a relaxation on camera that makes an audience relax, too. It's not a conscious thing. Cameras don't bother me, whereas other people try to perform to them.

Kevin Whately

#65. I don't want my 'part' taken! I haven't 'got' a part! I hate the stupid geometrical figures by which people try to understand the emotions of others, imposing hard straight lines - or 'sides' as they call them - onto tender curvaceous human beings who have none.

Frances Partridge

#66. Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?

Marisa Silver

#67. I just wish people would realise that anything is possible if you try. Dreams are made if people try.

Terry Fox

#68. Never compare people for we are all unique in our own ways. This is why people try so hard to practise perfection.

Morgan Chabane

#69. I go into the crowd almost everyday and I really really really despise it when people try to steal my shoes. That is a thing where they're proabably like 'oh, you can just go out and buy a new pair'. Like yeah, but those are my shoes. How would you feel if I tried to steal your shoes?

Jack Barakat

#70. Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

Lars Ulrich

#71. I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat it with the respect I believe it deserves.

Nicholas Stoller

#72. People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.

Tracey Emin

#73. On the East Coast, people try to make life interesting. On the West Coast, they try to make it comfortable. The emphasis here is on fancy cars, how one looks, less on the mind per se.

Al Seckel

#74. If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting drunk, partying and dancing them away. What really heals me is to sit down and think, face the facts, then you can get over it and be happy

Amy Lee

#75. Sexuality is pushed back more and more and people try to replace what they've lost with other forms of excitement.

Volkmar Sigusch

#76. Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?

Jessica Valenti

#77. In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out.

Anthony Liccione

#78. People try to find out true love but they don't get success..Why ? Because they search it in life in peoples But its dwell in Books

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

#79. I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

Captain Beefheart

#80. Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.

Carlos Slim

#81. Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Bill Evans

#82. People try to make names for things they don't understand

Rene Denfeld

#83. The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.

Douglas Hofstadter

#84. Stay true to what you believe in and don't let people try to change that direction. Don't take 'no' for an answer.

Lauren Conrad

#85. So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

Vanessa Hudgens

#86. I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to.

Amy Heckerling

#87. Many people try to avoid looking back. To be sure, there is a wrong way to look back; it is wrong to look back at past sins and failures and defeats. That can only make you fail even more today. But it is good to look back to see where we have been and what the Lord has done in us and through us.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#88. No one can tell you the rules of 'Celebrity Apprentice.' No one. Donald Trump just does what he wants, which is mostly pontificating to people who are sucking up to him, while the network people try to manipulate him into making the highest-rated show they can.

Penn Jillette

#89. People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives, into their physical houses and sort of live with portions of them. But they're not really deeply engaging with them.

Joyce Carol Oates

#90. People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

Billy Corgan

#91. 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

#92. People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely racial.

Allen Iverson

#93. And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.

James Frey

#94. Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.

Ward Cunningham

#95. I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.

Robert Atkins

#96. People try nonviolence for a week, and when it 'doesn't work,' they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries.

Zak Ebrahim

#97. Some people try to deal with money by pretending it doesn't matter, but financial pressure is something that affects us all every day of our lives.

Tony Robbins

#98. Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.

Bill Condon

#99. There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world.

Bryant McGill

#100. No matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong.

Zayn Malik