Tried Quotes

4144 Tried quotes by 2854 unique authors

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service. — Donald L. Carcieri
I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States. — Richard Ernst
A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the ways… — Marston Bates
I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking… — Ian Hart
Failure is awesome. Failure means you tried something, you tested it, and you learned some things. Failure gives you the tools to move forward. — Leah Busque
My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure… — Robert B. Laughlin
There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned. — Raymond Louis Wilder
And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd… — Oliver Goldsmith
I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want… — George Best
Unfortunately for the Iraqi people, instead of meeting these requirements, for six years, Saddam Hussein has lied, delayed, obstructed and tried to deceive — Madeleine Albright
While you're figuring out what to do, we've tried two different things and have figured out the right one. — Josh James
A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail. — Michael Arrington
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
...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield... — Don McLean
I tried to remember how to exhale. I had to look away before it came back to me. — Stephenie Meyer
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. — Alex Haley
I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I… — Natasha Hamilton
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about… — Jennifer Beals
The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some… — Jane Mayer
I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked. — Gail Porter
As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
I always tried to be correct, not politically correct. — Lee Kuan Yew
I originally started it to help me with anxiety & insomnia. It’s already made my life waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better & even with my stage fright. Which… — Sky Ferreira
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized… — Ezra Stiles
If wed known we were going to be The Beatles wed have tried harder. — George Harrison

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