Top 100 You Try Quotes
#1. Motherfucker, you try that again and I'll come in there with a fucking coat hanger and give you something to fucking kick about
David Sedaris
#2. I'm learning that when you get out into the world and you try things, it's amazing that you'll find how strong you are when you have to be.
Omar Benson Miller
#3. You try not to have a favorite when you have sons or kids. Can't have a favorite. Can't let them know know if you do. I don't. I treat my main son and the other two exactly the same way.
Greg Giraldo
#4. The tighter you try and hold on to something that you are afraid of losing, the more you are pushing it away.Those thoughts are filled with fear, and if you continue to persist, what you fear the most will come upon you.
Fear nothing - just think about what you want. It feels so much better!
Rhonda Byrne
#5. If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
Orson Scott Card
#6. Yes, it's funny, isn't it? You try to do what's best for the people you love, and you just end up in trouble for your efforts.
Kirsten Miller
#7. I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
Laurie Anderson
#8. Okay. Take a peek, but I swear if you try anything funny, I'll beat your head in with my flashlight.
Shannon K. Butcher
#9. Thomas rolled his eyes. "I never said jack about me being braver than anybody. I'm just sick of hearing people's voices. Yours included."
Minho snickered. "Slinthead, when you try to be mean, it's just freaking hilarious.
James Dashner
#10. If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.
Tom DeLonge
#11. Bravery is measured by how hard you try, not by whether you actually succeed.
Nancy Straight
#12. You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.
Hank Azaria
#13. Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#14. A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.
Cinda Williams Chima
#15. Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.
Mark McKinnon
#16. You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#17. I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.
Michael Ondaatje
#18. You cannot hide from the truth, Mina. Anytime you try to argue with the truth you lose. Anytime you try to evade it or run away from it, it will find you down the road.
Karen Essex
#19. One minute you're a happy fourteen-yearold - good at everything you try, popular, fun - the next you're a freak with wings
Cynthia Hand
#20. I mean, journalism is very detailed ... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.
Mark Boal
#21. You were wrong, commander. Whatever chains you try to place on me, I will always, always, rise from them. I'm not buying my freedom, because you never owned it. But I am taking it back, for me, and for my country.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#22. I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.
Susanna Kaysen
#23. I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to them, the more circulation they have.
Michael Eric Dyson
#24. You can never control a wild heart no matter how hard you try.
Christian Coma
#25. If you try to be a mediator today like Moses or Abraham, you are antichrist: against Christ, against His finished work, and attempting to take His place!
Andrew Wommack
#26. The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.
P. J. O'Rourke
#27. I've made mistakes in business, but none so big I couldn't recover and learn from them. The more you try to change consumer behaviour, the riskier it gets. You have to work out your potential losses against the obvious gains.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#28. You try to steal either of our souls and I will shred you like junk mail.
Kristen Painter
#29. 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
#30. Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.
Peter Straub
#31. You can't save everyone, though God knows you try.
Richelle Mead
#32. Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything.
Shunryu Suzuki
#33. I don't tend to be a nitpicker when I'm watching movies, so as long as something is true to the spirit of the original, that's very much what we got for. You try to never do something that the original author wouldn't have done themselves.
Jane Goldman
#35. When you try hard to get something, but you gain nothing, this is what's called depression.
Al-Hanouf Halawi
#36. Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.
Susan Cain
#37. Life can get fucked up fast when you try to be a pleaser. Because people won't ever be pleased, not even if you drop them ass-first into paradise. They like bitching too much.
Charles Frazier
#38. You try too hard. Winners forget they're in a race. They just love to run.
Joe Pesci
#39. You can't bring tweezers on an airplane. If I'm on a plane and you try to hijack it with tweezers, I'll whip your ass, man. You think I'm going to be late because you've got tweezers and a bad attitude?
Alonzo Bodden
#40. That's the thing about angry words - once you spill them out, they are like a broken jar of honey on the floor, all sticky and mess. And no matter how hard you try to clean it up, you can always feel that sticky part of the tile" -Cordie
Shelley Moore Thomas
#41. Your life looks like a prison because you focus on the things you wish you had and thus don't appreciate what you already have.
So why don't you try to see the abundance in your life? Because, if you haven't noticed, you've got many things to thank for. Just look around.
Lidiya K.
#42. So many more people recognise you and want to take up a moment of your time for a photo or a hello. You try to deal with it with grace and a degree of humour, because what's the alternative?
Matt Smith
#43. You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.
Brad Dourif
#44. You try and nurture the relationship. This day and age we have to do a little more networking than we used to do. All that does is make sure you befriend the people you are working with on a project so you hopefully carry it over to the next one.
Aaron Zigman
#45. You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.
Dylan Moran
#46. Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style.
Nigel Mansell
#47. Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you're lucky, you can find your way back to each other.
Taya Kyle
#48. You try telling that ox what to do and see what happens.
Leigh Bardugo
#49. If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left? If music is your inspiration and it brings you together with friends, family or loved ones and that's the core of it, then always have it. Always draw from it.
Charlie Benante
#50. Now you listen here, mister," I said, trying for a more adult tone. "I'm not going to spend every night listening to you try to crash you girl's head through my wall with the force of your dick alone!
Alice Clayton
#51. Morality has precious little to do with feeling in any case. The fact that you feel a surge of nausea at the sight of someone with half their head shot away is neither here nor there as long as you try to help them.
Terry Eagleton
#52. The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
Barbara Bush
#53. While you try to make peace on earth,
the inhabitants of heaven are still at war.
Toba Beta
#54. If you try to pop the unpopped kernels in the microwave, you go back in time.
Gary Gulman
#55. If you do not yet know where you fit, I suggest you try seeking it in receptive silence. I used to walk amid the beauties of nature, just receptive and silent, and wonderful insights would come to me.
Peace Pilgrim
#56. 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
#57. If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.
Deepak Chopra
#58. What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.
Jonathan Lethem
#59. If you're in a relationship and you try to trust somebody who's completely untrustworthy, when trust is the basis of any relationship and everyone else says not to trust, is love transformative.
Paul Haggis
#60. A lot of times, you try and please your biological family, and you can't please them.
Tom Lister Jr.
#61. We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.
Brad Bird
#62. No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over ... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.
Douglas Hofstadter
#63. It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' ... there is no end to it.
Barry Unsworth
#64. If you try to capture running water in a bucket, it is clear that you do not understand it and that you will always be disappointed, for in the bucket the water does not run. To "have" running water you must let go of it and let it run. The same is true of life and of God. The
Alan W. Watts
#65. You try getting any sympathy when you tell your best friends how much the self-avowed sadist broke your heart, how much pain she put you through. - Ivan E. Coyote to --------, 2004 (age 35)
David Eso
#66. There are things you won't know unless you try to find out. it's possible to notice things without seeming to. You're not a kid who doesn't know what a word says unless someone tells him. And how many years have you gone on living like that?
Kazuya Minekura
#67. If you try to do that which is not 'our' duty [the Self's duty], it will create interference.
Dada Bhagwan
#68. If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.
John C. McGinley
#69. A photograph can communicate a couple things - and sometimes only one thing - very well. The more you try to say with your photograph, the greater the chance that you will say nothing at all.
David DuChemin
#70. If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.
Stephen Chow
#71. Every time you try to do something that anxiety wants to stop you from doing, you've struck a blow that will make the anxiety weaker.
Jamie Blyth
#72. On a park bench on 12th street, my whole crew's famous, you try bust your gat and keep it rel but you nameless
Prodigy
#73. One hundred eighty days, Aislinn. Seth's been gone for one hundred eighty days, and I've watched you try to pretend it doesn't hurt for every one of them. Can't I try to make you happy?
Melissa Marr
#74. Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.
Michael Jordan
#75. "I've never see you do something like this before and I'd love to see you try." For a young actor, that's about the most exciting thing that anyone can say to you.
Dan Stevens
#76. If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
Ben Carson
#77. What's your name?" I ask again.
"Chris," he says. "Chris Young."
I exhale dramatically, blowing my bangs out of my eyes.
"I can take you," I reply. "But if you try anything, I'll shoot you right between the eyes. Seriously."
He almost smiles.
"Yes, ma'am.
Summer Lane
#78. My optimism has helped me through some hard times. If you try to send out good things, good things come back to you.
Jan Brett
#79. It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.
Dave Grohl
#80. The thing is, you try your best, and what else you got? You try your best, really, that's all you can do. And for me, my best happens really so rarely.
Junot Diaz
#81. If this world is wearing thin And you're thinking of escape I'll go anywhere with you Just wrap me up in chains But if you try to go alone Don't think I'll understand (Stay) Stay with me
Siobhan Fahey
#82. How long should you try? Until.
Jim Rohn
#83. Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.
Ivan Pavlov
#84. In moviemaking, you learn to pay attention to detail, because so much is in the detail. And when you're shooting, you try to be very alert to what's going on, even if you're tired.
Frederick Wiseman
#85. One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.
Brian Eno
#86. As a director, you try to find what is creative.
Jan De Bont
#87. When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good that you will not succeed. This is so universally true that you can actually make money from it.
Srikumar Rao
#88. Because I see you. Even though you try so hard to hide, I see you, anyway.
Victoria Scott
#89. Marcel Duchamp said, "I don't believe in art. I believe in artists." This is actually a pretty good method for studying - if you try to devour the history of your discipline all at once, you'll choke.
Austin Kleon
#90. Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.
Terry Pratchett
#91. The editing process, for me, is both the most fun and the most frustrating. It's the most fun because you get to see it actually piece together. But if one thing is off, it can be frustrating trying to figure out exactly what it is that's bumping you, so you try a hundred different things.
Scott Foley
#92. It is only when you try to refine the obvious, and give the distinctions greater precision, that you get into difficulties. For
Mortimer J. Adler
#93. Mr. Lipwig, this morning you had no experience at all of being dead, and yet but for my intervention you would nevertheless have turned out to be extremely good at it," said Lord Vetinari sharply. "It just goes to show: you never know until you try.
Terry Pratchett
#94. Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!
Ben Stiller
#95. Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.
Dizzy Gillespie
#96. There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.
Gerald R. Ford
#97. Prayer becomes religious when you try use it for something God never intended.
Andrew Wommack
#98. When I do music I don't do it with a purpose in mind. I just feel like it's a little bit contrived if you try to do something like that. It's got to come organically.
Jay Sean
#99. If you try to give them a scheme, most hitters will rebel.
Tony La Russa
#100. If you know the results, why will you try to solve the problem? If you know the meaning of life, why will you try to understand it? Sometimes it is better not to know the answer.
Debasish Mridha
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