Tried Quotes

• When I first tried out some hash, smoked some then. And I'll do it again, if only I had some cash.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Again
  • Cash
  • Smoked

• I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • To Do
  • Tried

• 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.'

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Growing Up
  • Watch
  • Little

• 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, ...

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Humanity
  • Conceive
  • Wizards

• He's going to get evaluated, get it looked at and they'll see what they should do. He tried to fight through some of the discomfort and everything. Me and his family got together and we decided this would be the best thing to do at this time.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Fight
  • Everything
  • Discomfort

• The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

  

  Sun Ra
  • Impossible
  • Tried
  • Failed

• Give it your best shot, have a good time and if it doesn't work at least you tried!

  

  Mel C Spice Girls
  • Tried
  • Good Time
  • Best Shot

• 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
  • Tried
  • Fancy
  • Self-contradictory

• 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
  • Conscious
  • Illness
  • Insect

• All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Real
  • Play

• What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Tried
  • Conservatism
  • Adherence

• 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.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Means
  • Tried
  • Affirm

• If they tried that in Australia we'd have kicked their ass!

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Ass
  • Tried
  • Kicked

• 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.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Tried
  • Writings
  • Successfully

• In all honesty, we never tried to get the number-one song anywhere anyway.

  

  Katie White
  • Honesty
  • Tried
  • Anywhere

• Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • True
  • Experiences
  • Instead

• 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
  • Wind
  • His
  • Pull

• [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
  • Golf
  • Chess
  • High School

• We tried out Question Mark and thought he was a really good singer. He had good showmanship, so we brought him in the band.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Band
  • Singer
  • Showmanship

• I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least Id know that I tried.

  

  Michelle Branch
  • Heart
  • Knows
  • Failed

• Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.

  

  Andy McNab
  • Tried
  • Carried

• 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
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Respect
  • Suicide
  • No Respect

• I just tried to give somebody a chance to catch it. He almost caught it.

  

  Jason White Green Day
  • Chance
  • Tried
  • Catch

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