Tried Quotes
4144 Tried quotes by 2854 unique authors
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Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them…
— Garrett P. Serviss
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Have you tried neuroxing papers? It.'s a very easy and cheap process. You hold the page in front of your eyes and you let it…
— Sydney Brenner
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Your love is better than chocolate. Better than anything else that I've tried.
— Sarah McLachlan
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Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens…
— Mark Nepo
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First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I…
— Haley Reinhart
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It is dog friendly nail polish, before we even go there because I know that is an issue. She's a bulldog, she needs all the…
— Victoria Beckham
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I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance…
— Alicia Sacramone
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[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably…
— Terry Eagleton
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Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance he'd have tried…
— Unknown Author
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There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried.…
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
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My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and…
— Lizzie Borden
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An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to…
— John McCain
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Search companies, which I won't mention by name, tried to do so many things at the same time, they forgot all about search. They either…
— Eric Schmidt
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In my family, there were Kei and Minoru and then there were the rest. Everyone in my family is very opinionated and everyone tried to…
— Akira Mori
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What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so…
— Diane Kruger
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I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.
— Ann-Margret
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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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I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.
— Christy Turlington
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I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the…
— Susan Wojcicki
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up…
— Amy Tan
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When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.
— Sophocles
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I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but…
— Irving Penn
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To all those whove tried to belong, and just didnt fit inyou are loved. To all those whove tried to stand out and be heardyoure…
— Gerard Way
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Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows that…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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