Tried Quotes
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I want to be remembered as someone who tried their best and hopefully succeeded.
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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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The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
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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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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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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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If they tried that in Australia we'd have kicked their ass!
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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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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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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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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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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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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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[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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In all honesty, we never tried to get the number-one song anywhere anyway.
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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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All I've ever tried to do is play real people.
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Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?
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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 don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.
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I just tried to give somebody a chance to catch it. He almost caught it.
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Tried on daddy's 1979 rookie firesuit a while back. Smelled every bit of 36 years old.
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Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.
