He Tried Quotes

103 He Tried quotes by 88 unique authors

He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did… — Jon Krakauer
Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational… — J D Salinger
You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of… — A A Milne
He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim. — Rita Mae Brown
He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was… — Neil Gaiman
We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating your race that… — Karen Marie Moning
Marcus Flutie slept with just about every girl on the Eastern Seaboard except me. Though, he tried to get into my panties when I was… — Megan McCafferty
Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them. — Patricia Briggs
I miss him, my lady.” “Well, he is now living adjacent. You can hardly miss him all that much.” “True. But we are no longer… — Gail Carriger
Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. — Jon Krakauer
His left eyebrow crept higher and higher as I told him the strange bits like the glowing letters and serpent staff. "Well, Sadie," Inspector Williams… — Rick Riordan
He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors. — Catherynne M. Valente
He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who… — Nicholas Sparks
Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried to make sense of her prattle. But that was the thing about Simi. She seldom… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one… — Cecelia Ahern
Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off. — George R. R. Martin
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again. — William Golding
I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or… — Veronica Roth
Magnus called me and asked me to come and see you. He tried to reach you, but he couldn’t. He wants you to put him… — Cassandra Clare
I don't know if you know this," Tobias says, "but Edward is a little unstable." "I'm getting that," I say. "That Drew guy who helped… — Veronica Roth
After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he… — Diana Wynne Jones
He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn;t your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes,but i liked him best when… — John Green

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