Tried Quotes
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Obviously he's a lot better on clay, so I tried to press his forehand and make points on my terms instead of his.
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And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
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All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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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 we tried to fight it.
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I want you. I know you tried to find.
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I tried to play some trumpet and stuff, so I had to figure that out. I record everything in my house.
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The nature of faith is that it must be tried.
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I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.
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I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl.
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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
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To give pleasure to the old man, I clumsily tried to learn, and I was dreadfully bad.
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[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.
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I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
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I've never tried to manipulate my image.
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The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.
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Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.
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I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.
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I tried eHarmony, because I liked the white hair and glasses of that guy on the commercials, and his manner was gentle, but eHarmony told me that the system and it's twenty nine levels of compatibility couldn't find anyone for me. That hurt my feelings.
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I tried to get a tan but I'm black already.
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A cold wind raced across the surrounding fields of wild grass, turning the land into a heaving dark-green ocean. It sighed up through the branches of cherry trees and rattled the thick leaves. Sometimes a cherry would break loose, tumble in the gale, fall and split, filling the night with its fragrance. The air was iron and loam and growth. He walked and tried to pull these things into his lungs, the silence and coolness of them. But someone was screaming, deep inside him. Someone was talking.
