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Trying Quotes by John Green
- So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will)…
- Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the victims than to…
- I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I'm reminded that there are billions of people like me, and we are each…
- I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have,…
- [My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest…
- My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
- Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't…
- The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I…
- I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf…
- I try to live life so that I can live with myself.
- What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
- Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people…
- Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You…
- Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up…
- One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he…
- Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth…
- I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then…
- Tiny, the next time that you try to set me up with a girl with a secret boyfriend can you at least INFORM me that…
- Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask…
- Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.
More Trying Quotes
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- Whoever is trying to bring you down is already beneath you. — Nishan Panwar
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- If there is any aim to achieve by all of us as a human being, it is to be so strong that… — Senoraroy
- One of the great thing that A Christian can do is to draw closer to GOD inspite of all the hindrances. I… — Pacifiersucker