Tried Quotes
4144 Tried quotes by 2854 unique authors
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Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and…
— Camille Paglia
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[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of cooking or living…
— Marya Hornbacher
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There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets…
— Unknown Author
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
— Xunzi
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Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.
— Mark Rippetoe
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I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.
— Lesley Boone
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Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.
— Austin O'Malley
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I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by…
— Diane Glancy
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If you've ever tried meditation and didn't stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the interim, you may…
— Victoria Moran
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We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything to get rid…
— Gangaji
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Lyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now.
— Adam Rich
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When it comes to art, buy with your eyes, not your ears. I tried very hard not to 'decorate' with art. Art should be reflective…
— Unknown Author
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Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?
— Unknown Author
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I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? I've always tried to play with the false impression of reality, with…
— Richard Kalvar
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What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.
— Liza Minnelli
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I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my…
— Dinah Shore
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They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in…
— Ken Blackwell
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I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application…
— Maureen Forrester
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When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some…
— Jim Dale
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I think playing a horn has had a great influence on my singing. I've tried to approach singing from an instrumental mindset. Space is just…
— Unknown Author
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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies…
— Clarence Darrow
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For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself…
— Richard Bach
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I was supposed to be cool about this, yeah, I remember - cool was the plan. Tried to keep it all under wraps, but the…
— Ani DiFranco
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We have a constantly-changing portfolio of social media experiments. The first time we tried applying social technologies in a customer service department it became the…
— Sandy Carter
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I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler
— Wilhelm Canaris
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