They tried to make me go to rehab, I said 'No, no, no,'
I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.
There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls have gone off in boys' clothes and tried to pass themselves off as boys and enlist as volunteers, and several have got through, since the medical examination is only a negligible formality required in one place, forgotten in another.
Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.
Johnny Bench befriended me my first year in the big leagues. He took me under his wing during my first All-Star Game and we've been friends ever since. He's one guy I've tried to emulate and I'll always compare myself to Johnny (Bench).
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat. , Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit. ]
To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried to learn Bengali for the last 14 years but never managed to do so!
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.
A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave
I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.
We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.
The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.
To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort
I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.
She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.
In The Sellout I tried to capture how we can talk and see race, how we see urbanity, and how we see our history.
There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he on day passed away, His insurance was denied, For since he never really lived, They claimed he never really died. (Anonymous poem)
I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
They say the recipe for Sprite is lemon and lime. I tried to make it at home. There's more to it than that.
But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived slavery because it's different when you hear it from their mouths instead of reading it from a history book.