Tried Quotes
4144 Tried quotes by 2854 unique authors
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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If anyone knew where they were, I'd send the ISDBB (Incredibly Stupid and Dumb Beyond Belief) award to the two guys who tried to break…
— Erma Bombeck
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I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.
— Julius Erving
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The question is not why good people have trials, but how shall good people respond when they are tried?
— Marion D. Hanks
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I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax-until I tried it myself. Then…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and…
— Bertrand Russell
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In order to be great, you have to learn from greatness, which is what I have tried to do.
— Unknown Author
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I'm a dancer so anything related to dance I love to do. I also tried Zumba last week. That thing is tough! 15 minutes in…
— Patti Stanger
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"I've learned what's funny verbally ain't so funny on e-mail: They don't hear your intonations. Melissa broke up with somebody over that. She tried to…
— Joan Rivers
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One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop…
— Fred F. Fielding
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There are so many people who want to get together to have a great prayer meeting or other great gatherings. Friend, have you ever tried…
— J. Vernon McGee
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You know all of my fears. There's nothing your eyes can't see. When I tried to give up Lord, you never gave up on me.
— Peter Furler
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I've tried that love thing for the last time. My heart says no, no! Nobody's supposed to be here, but you came along and changed…
— Deborah Cox
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Every woman deserves a man that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken. Even if these have been broken to pieces to…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are…
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long…
— Josh Duhamel
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I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
— Jonas Salk
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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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I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the…
— Nelson Mandela
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
— Nana Mouskouri
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Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay…
— Anna Quindlen
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The best advice I can give people when they buy Burgundy, which is a bit of a roulette game, is to look for producers who…
— Unknown Author
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I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.
— Dusty Springfield
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I think there are two areas where new ideas are terribly dangerous: economics and sex. By and large, it's all been tried, and if it's…
— Felix Rohatyn
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I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others either give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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