Tried Quotes

"The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?"
-Abraham Lincoln

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
-Abraham Lincoln

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
-George Washington

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
-George Washington

"For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed."
-Ernest Hemingway

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price."
-Rudyard Kipling

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried."
-G. K. Chesterton

"When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, I didn't like it, I didn't inhale it, and never tried it again."
-Bill Clinton

"No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life."
-David Starr Jordan

"I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do."
-Harry S Truman

"The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since."
-Tupac Shakur

"Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others."
-Amelia Earhart

"And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye."
-General Douglas MacArthur

"I think the thing he really needs to do to get better is put in more time in the weight room. Last year, we did a little bit of weight work with him. This year, we've tried to do a little more. He needs to get stronger."
-Mark Wroblewski

"We had a good meeting this morning and tried to clear up some of the problems we had with A&M. It was a real good team that we had beat in the final, so that's a great result for us."
-Rich Brands

"I just want to help. I'm an American and want to do whatever I can to assist these people. There is nothing in it for me except the knowledge that we tried, in our own way, to help."
-David Perkins

"Because of their size and strength they can cause injury. People in other parts of the world who have gotten in the water and tried to disentangle them have actually been killed."
-David Schofield

"They have tried to make a go of it, but it comes down to the fact that Sienna can't trust Jude."
-Jude Law

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
-Alexander Pope

"I tried to put him under pressure in the closing games because I thought the pressure of trying to win could affect his first serve."
-David Ferrer

"It took the pressure off some of the other girls, and they tried to get it to her to score."
-Mark Cross

"When they looked for her, she was not outside. She tried to go back inside, but she could not."
-Maria Rodriguez