They Tried Quotes
84 quotes by 81 authors
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In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
— Tom Clancy
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They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)
— Vachel Lindsay
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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It…
— Olive Schreiner
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I’d like to fight everybody who wants to make war on people. I’d like to fight bullies, actually. I’d like to stand up to the…
— Tom Hiddleston
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Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa
— Edward James Olmos
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Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get…
— Jodi Picoult
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When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked…
— Ani DiFranco
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As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky,…
— Yves Klein
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The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.
— Petr Skrabanek
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It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from…
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
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They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all the resources of a superpower cannot isolate the man who hears…
— Natan Sharansky
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Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right. And that is why you must seize the control of…
— Charlie Trotter
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One of the most important lessons the Lord has taught me is that you are not your gift. That is, you are not defined by…
— Michael Card
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In the end, Tuesday's vote represented a repudiation of virtually every notion Democrats embraced in recent weeks as they tried to disregard the growing evidence…
— Byron York
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I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.
— Mordechai Vanunu
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They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first.
— CJ Roberts
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Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They…
— Laurie Anderson
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But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not…
— C.S. Lewis
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The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still…
— Andrew Greeley
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I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to…
— Dick York
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