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.
Brian Baker Bad Religion -
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
Harold Pinter
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
Ad Reinhardt -
All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
Macaulay Culkin -
The nature of faith is that it must be tried.
Oswald Chambers -
I want you. I know you tried to find.
Pete Yorn -
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl.
Ray Toro My Chemical Romance
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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.
Francis Bacon -
[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.
Carol Mann -
I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
Abraham Lincoln -
The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
Sun Ra -
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.
Hippocrates -
To give pleasure to the old man, I clumsily tried to learn, and I was dreadfully bad.
Astor Piazzolla
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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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
Steve Yzerman -
When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.
Sophocles -
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.
Craig Lancaster -
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.
Dick Vitale -
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.
Billy Joel
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I've never tried to manipulate my image.
Alan Alda -
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.
Charles Beaumont -
There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world and divide us in America and make other Muslims think that we are not with them.We are all the same. I recognise them and they recognise me. I'm invited to all of their homes all over the world and I'm invited to Muslim countries.
Muhammad Ali -
If they tried that in Australia we'd have kicked their ass!
Ben Gillies Silverchair