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Always saying, "I tried" when you didn't really try at all. — Paulo Coelho
The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished. — Thomas Paine
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies… — Alexander Hamilton
There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part… — Charles Eliot Norton
I've tried Botox, I've tried them all. I'm definitely not one of those people who says, 'You shouldn't do this.' Everyone can individually do what… — Kylie Minogue
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man,… — Desiderius Erasmus
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
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going… — John Prine
I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your… — Merle Haggard
Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.… — Melissa Manchester
Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried… — Guy Clark
My favorite song he ever wrote was 'Cold Cold Heart.' If you think about it, the lyric to 'Cold Cold Heart,' see how many two… — Don Helms
In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too… — Dolly Parton
As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me. — Carly Simon
Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle around on the… — Iron & Wine
I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't… — Giannis Ritsos
Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base Germany, 1951 and we tried to get… — Gordon Cooper
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female,… — Florence Nightingale
America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach… — Daniel J. Boorstin
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
What's his name? I tried to forget him because if he would have fought like he worked with my guy he would have knocked the… — Angelo Dundee
Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors,… — Rob Ford
History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head… — Mark Twain
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out… — Mark Twain
My artistic goal was to write something that's one hundred percent real and true to me and to this world. I tried to touch on… — Mat Kearney

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