Can't Say I Didn't Try Quotes

#1. Search as you might, you will never know the clarity of distance without me. Still you can't say I didn't try,' my shadow says, then pauses. 'I loved you.

Haruki Murakami

#2. The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Benazir Bhutto

#3. Don't say you'll try. Say you'll succeed. Trying means you're giving yourself the option to fail. Don't give yourself that option. I didn't and look at me five years sober.

L. H. Cosway

#4. I didn't say try to fail. Try and risk failing. That's how people learn.

Melissa Turner Lee

#5. If we go into white congregations, non-whites will sometimes say it felt like worship never started. It was sort of dead and didn't feel that warmly received. But so - and there are different realities either way, and it makes it difficult for all groups to try and cross boundaries.

Michael Emerson

#6. I didn't try to say the penis word for Elaine. "Cock," I said to her.

John Irving

#7. I can't deny that Jerry Springer supposedly beating us didn't affect me. There was a point where I felt like, Golly, you work so hard, you try so hard and the people say they want meaningful television and then Jerry Springer ends up beating you. It was disturbing.

Oprah Winfrey

#8. Tab and I don't play it that way. You wanna order your old lady around, do what you do, not for me to say. I asked her to go, she didn't go. Not gonna make her. But you try, you'll deal with me

Kristen Ashley

#9. I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy

Jessica Dovey

#10. Always I was dreaming of a record contract. From 10 to 13, it was all I could think of. I worked hard for this dream. Nobody could say I didn't try.

Shakira

#11. You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.

Taylor Hanson

#12. You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

Vince Vaughn

#13. I've got this weird body chemistry that I don't like to get high. I'm not going to say I never tried drugs. I tried most everything. I didn't try injectables. But I didn't like it.

Linda Ronstadt

#14. The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than a painter or a musician can wish to return to his cruder manner, or a philosopher to his less complete formula.

George Eliot

#15. I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.

Robert Fisk

#16. I didn't realize the connection between the mullet and success. For sure, you have to have a little bit of hockey hair - a little bit of flow, as they say. A lot of guys have fun with their hockey hair, so I'll try to keep it a little long.

Sidney Crosby

#17. It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.

Wes Borland

#18. We make our own problems every time. Everything that we complain about is something we can solve.

Bruce Campbell

#19. I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'

Tony Fernandes

#20. I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

Fred Melamed

#21. God bless the man who first invented sleep! So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he didn't keep His great discovery to himself, nor try To make it, as the lucky fellow might A close monopoly by patent-right.

John Godfrey Saxe

#22. I've got a theory," Thomas says, "that there are some things in life we never feel ready for, that it's only by doing them that we become ready.

Annabel Smith

#23. Oh, you should have been born with my abilities, if only to have felt the rage that seeped from him."
I didn't want to think much about his abilities. "Who's to say he won't splatter you as well?"
"Perhaps he'll try- but I have a feeling he'll kill Amarantha first.

Sarah J. Maas

#24. I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#25. You guys didn't try to do anything to me," I say honestly. "You brought me to a house because you wanted to freak me out. You didn't know that your friend would wind up getting torn in half and disemboweled.

Kendare Blake

#26. I became an insomniac, really, hardly slept at all, didn't even try to. And it's carried on. I hate to say I only need as much sleep as Mrs. Thatcher, but I can cope really well on five hours.

Sue Townsend

#27. I didn't try and say anything terribly meaningful. I'm definitely not a social commentator at all.

Jack Tatum

#28. We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#29. Who would want to buy a good car when you can buy an American car?

Bob Packwood

#30. I can say I didn't win, but I can't say that I didn't try.

Maribel C. Pagan

#31. You said I could pet you as long as I liked."
"Didn't say I wouldn't try to fuck you in the middle of the petting."
Her eyes snapped up to meet his. "That's feline logic. You're a wolf."
"I'm learning from the best.

Nalini Singh

#32. Listen to me. I said you need to strive to better than everyone else. I didn't say you needed to be better than everyone else. But you gotta try. That's what character is. It's in the try.

Eric Taylor