Tried Quotes

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I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried… — Yukihiro Matsumoto
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was… — Henry Giroux
As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must… — John Boyd Orr
Do we have a guide to help us choose the right and avoid dangerous detours? I have tried to pattern my life after the Master.… — Thomas S. Monson
I never stay away from workouts. I work hard. I've tried to take care of my body. I'll never look back and say that I… — Carl Yastrzemski
I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the words all right,… — Ringo Starr
I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out… — Maya Angelou
We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey. — Cameron Crowe
To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and… — Anna Kavan
[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecific… — Jasper Fforde
It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also. — Victor Hugo
If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that… — Colleen Hoover
You don't know when you're twenty-three. You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see… — Rainbow Rowell
A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet… — Caroline Norton
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and… — Joss Whedon
We have always tried to treat every album differently and even from day one I think that each Asia album has been approached with care… — Geoff Downes
The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into… — Ambrose Bierce
I tried on the farmer's hat, Didn't fit. . . A little too small - just a bit Too floppy. . . . . I… — Shel Silverstein
I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the… — Dan Rather
Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available… — Todd Rundgren
I tried body surfing once, but how often do you find a corpse? — Emo Philips
Politicians throughout history have tried to solve every problem conceivable to man, always failing to recognize that many of the problems we face result from… — Ron Paul
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more… — Mark Twain

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