Tried Quotes
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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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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.
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I saw his engine and car in half and I tried to keep looking away.
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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 want to be remembered as someone who tried their best and hopefully succeeded.
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In all my writings I have always tried — how far successfully I know not — to advance the cause of Truth and Right and to induce my readers to put their trust in the love of God our Saviour, for this life as well as the life to come.
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Give it your best shot, have a good time and if it doesn't work at least you tried!
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My guys tried hard. I told them in the locker room it does hurt but that means we're playing games that mean something. Until you get to where you want to be at the top you have to go through some of this. It should hurt and it does hurt.
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When I first tried out some hash, smoked some then. And I'll do it again, if only I had some cash.
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If they tried that in Australia we'd have kicked their ass!
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I once had a problem ... so I tried group sex. Now I have a new problem - who to thank.
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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
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I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.
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Yet humanity could not conceive. It tried and tried, and called mighty wizards from every corner of its earthly kingdom, but no child came. Many mourned, and said that a child was a terrible idea to begin with, ...
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We tried out Question Mark and thought he was a really good singer. He had good showmanship, so we brought him in the band.
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I have tried a little kinky stuff. A woman called me and said, 'I have mirrors all over my bedroom. Bring a bottle.' I brought Windex.
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In all honesty, we never tried to get the number-one song anywhere anyway.
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I just tried to give somebody a chance to catch it. He almost caught it.
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All I've ever tried to do is play real people.
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Growing up, for me, it was in a musical family, so my mum and her brothers and sisters always sang. Every time I tried to join their group when I was little, they were like, 'Ah, darling, you're not too good - just sit back and watch us.'
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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
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Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.
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What isn't tried won't work.
