Tried Hard Quotes

#1. I didn't care that we'd caught a few stares from students passing by. I didn't care that the bell to begin class rang. I didn't care that everything between us had changed. All I cared about was the fact that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get any closer to Jack.

Brodi Ashton

#2. Or maybe they were staring at me as I tried to discreetly wipe sweat from between my breasts without appearing to get to second base with myself. Hard to say.

Rachel Hawkins

#3. I was harder than Dante. I think I'd tried to hide that hardness from him because I'd wanted him to like me. But now he knew. That I was hard. And maybe that was okay. Maybe he could like the fact that I was hard just as I liked the fact that he wasn't hard.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#4. You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.

Augusten Burroughs

#5. Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

Neil Armstrong

#6. I think I've tried to stay true to my music since the beginning. It's kind of hard because of the access and technology but I just do what I do.

Brian McKnight

#7. I find that low protein diets often contribute to improvement in patients with immune system problems ... In fact, it would be hard to become deficient in protein in our country even if you tried.

Andrew Weil

#8. I've tried so hard to use those two annoying F words; forgive and forget. It never works.

Calia Read

#9. I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.

Zooey Deschanel

#10. I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

Dylan McDermott

#11. It was no use to tell a person to forget. No matter how hard you tried to put it out of your mind, the hurt would still be there, festering under the forgetfulness, sending poison through your veins.

Mary Schumann

#12. Forest of Arden was great for me. I couldn't finish outside the top five there no matter how hard I tried!

Darren Clarke

#13. No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in, the fear came trickling out. It hovered like a cloud of gas around her, threatening to penetrate her pores and poison her.

Stieg Larsson

#14. Maybe I'm not the hero to her I've always tried so hard to be, because right now, I feel as if she doesn't even need a hero. Why would she? She has someone so much stronger than I'll ever be for her. She has herself.

Colleen Hoover

#15. It's hard to show you that I tried unless you end up succeeding.

Rachel Cohn

#16. Billy Pilgrim tried hard to care. A

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#17. I knew then that no matter how hard you tried, no matter how many jars of honey you threw, no matter how much you thought you could leave your mother behind, she would never disappear from the tender places in you.

Sue Monk Kidd

#18. And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried.

Toni Braxton

#19. Amelia tried to imagine it, lying undefended on the hard ground, at the mercy of every creature that crawled, crept, or flew. "I don't think I could fall asleep that way."
She felt his hand playing slowly in the loose locks of her hair. "You could." His voice was soft. "I would help you.

Lisa Kleypas

#20. I tried to kickbox once right after I had my first baby, and I was so miserable; it was so hard. And I went home, and I passed out for three hours because it's so hard.

Leslie Mann

#21. I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.

Laura Slade Wiggins

#22. When it comes to art, buy with your eyes, not your ears. I tried very hard not to 'decorate' with art. Art should be reflective of your personality and what's going on in your head-not reflective of the colors of a sofa.

Jason Pomeranc

#23. 'Donny and Marie' was a great experience. I tried so hard to be a great talk show host but it's all about relaxing and enjoying it. Marie and I finally figured that out. I would have liked it to continue but I'm kind of glad it's over because of the phenomenal workload.

Donny Osmond

#24. Always be prepared; always work hard and take pride in your work no matter what it is. I still follow that advice and have already tried to pass it on to my children. They, of course, ignored me.

Allen Covert

#25. I believe that one of the things I've tried to do is work hard and take the business very seriously.

Ryan Seacrest

#26. I've always tried to work hard. I'm not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacular for attention.

Roy Halladay

#27. When I was in high school I experimented sexually. The experiment was to never have sex with anybody no matter how hard I tried. Success! Hypothesis confirmed.

Demetri Martin

#28. Not the challenges necessarily, but the way in which you get ready because your technique has improved over the years and you perhaps know how to be more economical than perhaps you used to be when you tried to work perhaps too hard.

Christopher Plummer

#29. I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.

Zack Snyder

#30. Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried.

Guy Lafleur

#31. I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

Alan Jackson

#32. The girl wouldn't last the year. Girls like her were soft and easy to break. Lowborns always wanted glory until they realized the hard work it entailed. Darren had worked hard for everything, and a girl who tried to take that away? Well, she wasn't worth very much.

Rachel E. Carter

#33. You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.

Anthony F. C. Wallace

#34. I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!

Andie MacDowell

#35. I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

Michael Learned

#36. And even if one tried, it would be very hard to give a true account, for there were no thoughts in Ivan's mind but something very vague. He felt that he had lost his bearings.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#37. Hamish Alexander stood on Benjamin the Great's flag deck with his hands clasped behind him and tried very hard not to feel a sense of godlike power.

David Weber

#38. There are people in your past that you can't shake free from no matter how hard you tried. There's a certain process that you have to go through to say goodbye. That fire doesn't get extinguished. You have to put a gun to it.

Ruta Gedmintas

#39. I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

Jeff Foxworthy

#40. I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comfortable with, but I never tried walking or singing while hula hooping! It's actually pretty difficult and tiring. But I like challenging myself. It's hard, but it's really fun.

Patina Miller

#41. How could you believe or disbelieve anything anymore? Four maybe five million men killed and none of them wanting to die while hundreds maybe thousands were left crazy or blind or crippled and couldn't die no matter how hard they tried.

Dalton Trumbo

#42. Katherine, who tried so hard in London to be best friends with Virginia Woolf, who hated her, because Katherine was the kind of naif-imbecile that the literary men adored and championed at her expense.

Chris Kraus

#43. Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel.
His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.

Tamora Pierce

#44. So what happened?" Mom asks; there's a tone of resignation, the sound of a parent who has tried really hard for a long time and realizes that the end of the tunnel doesn't have a light so much as a black hole.

Mindy McGinnis

#45. Let's face it: Engineering companies in general have more men than women. Google has tried really hard to recruit women. On the other hand, we have a standard. Google tries to recruit the best engineers.

Susan Wojcicki

#46. High school was hard for me. I tried really hard to fit in and said the things I thought people wanted to hear. But I was unsure of myself. I was self-conscious, and I didn't really know my place or where I fit in.

Meaghan Rath

#47. I've tried to be a better person ... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried ... "
"Nice try ... Five cents, please!

Charles M. Schulz

#48. What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

Andrew Lo

#49. I cannot sing karaoke because it's hard and weird. If I actually tried to sing, I would probably sound good, and I think that's weird and not fun.

Skylar Astin

#50. All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.

Cathy Guisewite

#51. I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I just played the electric too hard and it sounded awful, so I gave it up.

Tom Rush

#52. His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

Patricia Briggs

#53. He was really having a hard time with this. He was not a seductive kind of guy, and if he tried to be sexy, he was going to sound like Romeo, the porn version.

Erin McCarthy

#54. I made mistakes. I trusted both too little and too much. But, by the gods, I tried so hard. I gave everything I had.
I have always done the best I could, and yet, somehow,it has never been enough. No one cared what I did. They always turned their backs on me. Why can't I be like that?

Marie Lu

#55. No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.

Thomas Hoving

#56. The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried

Richard Dawkins

#57. You should have invited him in," Nola's sleepy voice said from across the room. "Trust me," I said. "I tried." "You make falling in love look hard," she muttered as she rolled over. "Give it a whirl again one of these days," I said. "Show me how easy it is.

Devon Monk

#58. He swallowed hard and looked deep into my eyes so intensely, I tried hard not to look away. I didn't want him to see how mildly scared of him I was. I touched the hand in his lap and he answered.

Mercy Cortez

#59. Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It's nothing planned. It's nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling.

Michael Jackson

#60. The only real failure in life is giving up. On looking back let it stand to our credit in life's balance sheet that at least we tried, and tried hard.

A.G. Street

#61. These must be the most depressing words in the history of love. I tried really hard to love you.

Cath Crowley

#62. Happy!" He leaned over the rail and tried to hold her eyes. But that is hard to do, for eyes are born dodgers and know a whole circumference of ways out of a bad spot.

"Faith in the Afternoon

Grace Paley

#63. I tried to imagine myself part of a pack of guys who picked up local public school girls on weekends. It was hard to envision, but I was definitely willing to try. Not the pickup part. Just the being in a posse part.

Bill Konigsberg

#64. You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.

Greg Maddux

#65. And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

Neil Gaiman

#66. I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard ... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing ... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour.

Randy Pausch

#67. He tried. That's the big thing. He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him. He should get a nice raise for trying so hard.

Kurt Vonnegut

#68. Nothing was what she was; nothing was what she gave to those foolish enough to care for her. Nothing was what she deserved, and so nothing had been what she got. It didn't matter how hard she tried or what she did.

Courtney Milan

#69. You ever laughed so hard
nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute,
no matter what they tried to do to you?

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#70. This however, wasn't an ideal world, and no matter how hard I tried to think of an answer, I had nothing.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#71. British?" I tried to explain. "We make jokes about uncomfortable topics to feel less awkward about them?" How Hard Can Love Be? chapter 22

Holly Bourne

#72. And you know what the worst thing was?
The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.

Jack McCarthy

#73. I'll never forget the moans and cries of the poor detainees in Jordan when they were suffering torture. I remember putting my hands over my ears to stop myself from hearing the cries, but no matter how hard I tried, I was still able to hear the suffering. It was awful, even worse than torture.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#74. What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

Liza Minnelli

#75. I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

Kim Novak

#76. I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

Jen Lancaster

#77. The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

Henry Chadwick

#78. He'd tried so hard to fight his fear, but there was a something liberating about giving up the battle and recognizing his fear was part of him. It wasn't something to be exorcised. It wasn't something to be obeyed. It needed only to be acknowledged.

Marie Sexton

#79. I don't like that I was never fully able to let go of him, no matter how hard I tried.

Colleen Hoover

#80. I went to the door, and Gary tried hard not to notice I was blue. He looked at his feet, and he looked above my head, and he cleared his throat.
It's okay,' I said. 'I know I'm blue.'
It caught me by surprise,' he said. 'I didn't want to seem rude.

Janet Evanovich

#81. There's no point putting your heart and soul into a part when you know in advance it isn't worth the trouble. I'm not speaking as a dedicated actress. Enthusiasm and hard work are requisites for any job a person undertakes. I tried working just for money once and it made me almost physically ill.

Lizabeth Scott

#82. I'm starting to realize that she's my only real friend in the world right now. I can't lose that. I've tried so hard to play it safe with her, and I thought I was doing okay until I went all wounded warrior on her and ... fuck.

Heather Demetrios

#83. He got why Eleanor tried so hard to look different. Sort of. It was because she was different - because she wasn't afraid to be.

Rainbow Rowell

#84. Pearl swallowed hard. "I thought you were going to stay away." His voice sounded just as strangled as hers. "I tried.

Afton Locke

#85. She needed me, yet I couldn't reach her, no matter how hard I tried. "Maggie!" I screamed her name as loud as I could, but no words left my lips. Instead, her name and my voice bounced around inside of my head.

J.L. Beck

#86. For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions

Lou Gerstner

#87. In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

#88. I told myself to just stay away from you and let you be mad at me, because I do have so many issues that I'm not ready to share with you yet. And I tried so hard to stay away, but I can't.

Colleen Hoover

#89. I wish I was home, she said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all. The

George R R Martin

#90. I got fairly good grades, but I was bad at woodwork. They said I tried hard, but the result was hopeless.

Jonathan Stroud

#91. I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out.

Tonya Hurley

#92. He thought he would choke to death on it, on the harsh truth he'd been trying to ignore his entire life: that no matter how bad he wanted it or how he hard he tried to get it, he would never be worthy of anyone's love.

Tommy Wallach

#93. I want control, Erica. But I'm not going to take it from you. You have to give it to me. you opened the door. Now you have to walk through it. You've tried to draw this hard line between us, with work and our relationship, where you keep the amount of control you think you need. It ends now.

Meredith Wild

#94. Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.

Steve Jobs

#95. Before I got divorced, I was personally unfamiliar with trial, or at least trial of serious, heart-wrenching proportions. I figured that life went smoothly if you tried hard, and if you messed up, or things weren't working out, you just tried harder.

Kristin Armstrong

#96. It was funny. The adults taking all this so seriously, and the children playing
along, playing along, believing it too until suddenly the adults went too far, tried too hard, and the children
could see through their game.

Orson Scott Card

#97. I have no idea why you tried so hard to save me," I murmured into her hair. "But I'll be forever grateful you did."
Smiling at me, she just said, "It's because you're worth it.

Linda Kage

#98. Like the fact that he's my twin brother and I know you'll eventually ask us to double-penetrate you."
I tried very hard to look shocked. "I don't even know what that means, Shane."
"And you're never going to find out.

Nick Pageant

#99. I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

Ava Gardner

#100. Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

Maude Adams