They Tried Quotes

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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
They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note) — Vachel Lindsay
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
Iâ€™d like to fight everybody who wants to make war on people. Iâ€™d like to fight bullies, actually. Iâ€™d like to stand up to the… — Tom Hiddleston
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash. — Mordechai Vanunu
They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first. — CJ Roberts
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
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
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
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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