We Tried Quotes
108 We Tried quotes by 100 unique authors
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation…
— Jack Welch
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The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes…
— Lorrie Moore
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She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl.…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now…
— Jack Kerouac
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After that we tried thirty-nine times to stand together on the tube until we finally did. It was fun. I liked the falling part, and…
— Miriam Toews
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But Jude,' she would say, 'you knew me. All those days and years, Jude, you knew me. My ways and my hands and how my…
— Toni Morrison
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Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want…
— Walt Disney
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We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour…
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But…
— Billy Joel
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We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get things for me,…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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One of the men gave Butch a bunch of volts with a stun gun. The Rangeman didn’t move fast enough, and Butch grabbed the gun…
— Janet Evanovich
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The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to…
— Mitch Albom
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Maximum damage. It was the beginning of the end. Either we would fail or not. At least we could say we tried.
— Maria V. Snyder
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We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew
— Jerry Spinelli
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All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill…
— Sarah Dessen
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We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.
— Sheila Heti
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I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as…
— Gayle Forman
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There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate.
— Jimmy Fallon
Who Wrote These We Tried Quotes
100 authors contributed a total of 108 We Tried Quotes, led by these top contributors: