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From my very first day, I was pursued by men.
All of them tried to hurt me, but only one managed to break my heart. — Brian K. Vaughan

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed. — Dolly Parton

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it. — Cormac McCarthy

I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts. — Tamara Taylor

Why wouldn't you talk to us Little Sister?

"I tried," Little Sister says. "I did. But my voice was lost in sadness. — Audrey Couloumbis

I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead. — Lee Hazlewood

I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day. — Donald Ray Pollock

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard. — Louis C.K.

I tried to learn. I wanted to learn to be righteous. I wanted to know. But I could only pretend. — Robert Jackson Bennett

Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. — Janet Fitch

I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me. — Mitchell Baker

I tried to whisper sweet nothings into your ear but you're way the fuck over there and I'm way the fuck over here. — Crystal Rose

I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either. — Edward Young

If Frank and I tried to be something, it would be *real*, in a way that was scary - but also really exciting -Emily — Morgan Matson

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy — Groucho Marx

I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose. — Dave Barry

I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping. — Gaylord Perry

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre. — Natalie Portman

I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent. — Emma Goldman

I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism. — Trevor Dunn

What does my soul look like to you?' 'I couldn't reduce it to words if I tried, but its beauty is unsurpassed. — Lauren Kate

So they, who climb to wealth, forget
The friends in darker fortunes tried.
I copied them
but I regret
That I should ape the ways of pride. — William C. Bryant

I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players. — Gary Carter

I tried to do my best impression of The Jonas Brothers, but no matter how hard I tried I ended up looking cool! — Alex Trebek

Again, I tried to not let it bother me, but the ego is frail, fragile tender thing. — S.C. Stephens

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex. — Molly Parker

I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks. — Shandy L. Kurth

I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room. — Louise Erdrich

I'm paraphrasing, but yeah, a friend out of the Chicago organization did." "Chicago? You tried planting your seed in the DeMarco family? — J.M. Darhower

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it ... for about ten years. — Harry Connick Jr.

How would you like your eggs?"
I tried. I really did. But I glanced at his crotch and it came out anyway. "Fertilized? — Darynda Jones

I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid. — Alan Dapre

People are always doing that in movies, staring out of windows to signify their hardships. I've tried a few times, but it was pretty boring. — Rachel Bertsche

I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this. — Joyce Maynard

I love Viagra. I don't need it, but I tried it. It's a great legal drug. — Kenny Rogers

When I tried to understand consciousness, I found out how simple it was, but we try to make it so complicated. — Debasish Mridha

I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone. — Abbi Glines

I tried to scrounge up some awe but only got anxiety instead. — Ilona Andrews

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank. — Langston Hughes

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged. — Peter De Vries

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing. — Christopher Walken

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design. — Mikhail Kalashnikov

But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that. — Ken Kesey

I tried to get a job in a freak show," he [Gregor] went on, "but they said I was overqualified. So I became the porter at Groosham Grange. — Anthony Horowitz

I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold ... — Colin Hay

I've tried that love thing for the last time. My heart says no, no! Nobody's supposed to be here, but you came along and changed my mind — Deborah Cox

I tried to find one; but warriors are busy fighting one another in distant lands, — J.R.R. Tolkien

My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune. — Heber J. Grant

I tried explaining to Blackjack that taking a flying horse to a donut shop would give every cop in there a heart attack, but he didn't seem to get it. — Rick Riordan

I am 36 years old, I can't change. I have tried, trust me, but I can't. It's nice to get over yourself and just do it. — Kevin Drew

I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take. — Jessa Crispin

Tottenham tried to sign me but I held off and came to Arsenal because Arsene Wenger was here. — Emmanuel Petit

I tried out for 'Jeopardy' once, when they came to Cleveland, but I didn't make it. — Drew Carey

Look, I tried to get a paper route instead, but the newspapers keep burning up on reentry. — Steven Gould

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man. — Andrew Carnegie

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit. — Emily Dickinson

I'd be more than delighted to go find energy in Club Med. But we've tried and did not find it. — Christophe De Margerie

My house used to be haunted, but the ghosts haven't been back since the night I tried on all my wigs. — Phyllis Diller

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art. — Tracie Bennett

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied. — Kate Cary

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I've tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I'm beautiful — Thom Yorke

I just can't dance like no ones watching. I tried but it's futile. — Gary Gulman

I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot. — Stephenie Meyer

I tried to shrug, but I'm sure
it looked like a minor seizure. — Penny Reid

I tried to give him my best you're-so-sexy-and-I'm-impressed look, but I don't think it worked. — Jessica Verday

I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought). — Jean Rhys

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me. — Bertrand Russell

I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously. — Shakira

I tried to fix her but should have remembered the number one rule about fixing broken people: you always get stuck with their sharp edges. — Charity Ferrell

I tried to hostess ... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked. — Taylor Schilling

I tried to put on a smile but, being too cold, I could only manage a grin. That's one reason why I don't like winter: smiles become abstract. — Elie Wiesel

I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke. — Joan Rivers

He made his own silent screams then and tried to die. But I held him there. — Mark Lawrence

'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest. — Joe Abercrombie

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can! — Ansel Adams

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."] — Augusten Burroughs

I've tried to tell the truth. But I would say that, wouldn't I? In any case it has to be my truth. What other truth could I possibly know? — Tony Garnett

I knew I shouldn't be eating fried chips, but I'm just not a fan of baked chips, as much as I tried them. — Keith Belling

I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much. — Jack McDevitt

If a person loses hope, they have lost everything. (I tried to put this one in the earlier quotes section, but it never loaded properly.) — Dennis Moulton

I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman. — Alice Walker

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny. — Aung San Suu Kyi

But every time she tried yoga she found herself silently chanting her own mantra: I'm so boooored, I'm so boooored. — Liane Moriarty

I tried to play every sport. I wasn't great at most of them, but at least I tried! — Britt Robertson

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. — Winston Churchill

I tried to tell them that things would be okay, but I didn't believe it. — Rick Riordan

Every time he came in, he tried to charm me into tellin' him my name, but I never did. I was too aware of who I was. And who I wasn't. — Karen Witemeyer

I've tried a lot of things in the off-season, but the only thing I really know is baseball. — Hank Aaron

Gay sex just doesn't do it for me. I tried it one time when I was younger, but just didn't dig it. — Steven Tyler

I have tried to be more relatable, but I won't be relatable to everybody. — Brian Posehn

I've tried to pitch 'Borgen - the Musical,' but they just won't listen to me! — Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work. — Rupert Grint

I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding. — John Waters

I tried marijuana once or twice in England, but didn't like it. I didn't inhale. — William J. Clinton

I tried to smile but feared I would cry. 'I always wondered what it was like to be shot.'
'Now you've lived to tell the tale. — Cameron Stracher

I tried living as a very nice person, but there's no need to be nice .. you have to be mean to survive — Kim Heechul

I only want to write. I don't care about directing really. I've tried it and it was fun, but it's not like I have to. — Catherine O'Hara

You're my son, Jesper. I can't protect you. Maybe I shouldn't have tried. But I will be there even when you falter. Every time. — Leigh Bardugo

I was physically attacked by a woman who didn't even know me. Yes, my boyfriend was her former husband, but she tried to ruin me. — Brenda Perlin