Quotes About You Tried

#1. I'm a food addict. I've tried everything- Weight Watchers, The South Beach, raw food, Atkins, low-fat diets. Nothing works for me." I looked at him and said, "Have you tried suffering?" He laughed out loud, as if I was joking. I wasn't joking.

Frederick Woolverton

#2. I wasn't sure of it, but I was almost certain that loneliness was a disease. An infectious, disgusting illness that was slow to creep into your system and overtake you, even though you tried to fight it off the best you could.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#3. You did not fit - the mold that they shoved you into. The path you were born upon and forced to walk. You tried, and yet you did not, could not, fit. And then the path changed." A little nod. "I know - what it is to be that way.

Sarah J. Maas

#4. Thank you for all you taught me, and all you tried to teach me that I refused to learn.

Shanlynn Walker

#5. But don't try to appeal to my humanity now," I rasped, my voice low and cold, unfamiliar, "not when you forced me to admit that I'm a monster. Not when you tried to take away the only good thing I'll ever know. If he had died, I would've shown you a real monster.

Julie Kagawa

#6. Have you tried talking to her?"
"No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?

Cassandra Clare

#7. If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

Rudyard Kipling

#8. Well we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."
"I see. You tried the diplomatic approach.

Rick Riordan

#9. You tried to so hard to forget me; you burnt the letters I made. Though my memory has been dying,
I hope the feeling still remains. Will you meet me in the middle someday?

Joshua James

#10. By the way, don't think I forgot you tried to lie to me again."
"So, how long is it gonna take for you to turn into a wolf, so I can run the hell away from you?

Sarah Brianne

#11. It was like a blackout in reverse. Since around nine o'clock, no lamps could be switched off, no electrical appliances powered down. If you tried to pull out the plug there was an alarming crackling sound and sparks flew between the outlet and the plug, preventing the circuit from being broken.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#12. There's a bitter cold in me, a cold which comes from a distant land. And nothing ever really makes it warm. You knew of this cold. You tried a thousand times to melt it, and transform it to something more brilliant, but you never succeeded.

Anne Rice

#13. Do yourself a favor,' I said. "Forget it. Forget you ever saw me."
"Forget that you tried to kill me too?"
"Yeah. That, too."
"But who are you?"
"Percy-" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!"
"What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?"
I bolted for the exit.

Rick Riordan

#14. Settling for not-so-bad sounds okay. But, you know, it's hard when you tried so much to make life really good.

Abigail Tarttelin

#15. What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning
and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.

Lewis Carroll

#16. God, I'm hungry. Have you tried the 5:2 diet? This is my fast day. I am dying of starvation.

Liane Moriarty

#17. We can only be ourselves in the long run. Everyone can be someone else for a time. Actors have jobs for a reason. But eventually, our true natures win out. You never could have been someone else for long, even if you tried. It would have broken you

Jeanette Murray

#18. You tried to establish a fact from a lack of evidence. Unless the inquiry has been so exhaustive as to explore every possibility, the lack of evidence should never be used to ground a statement of fact. Unlikelihood certainly, but no more. A prematurely assumed fact blocks further inquiry." "Can

Jonathan Renshaw

#19. No matter how much you tried to make something happen, you will not be able to until the time is right.

Preeti Shenoy

#20. He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.

Melissa De La Cruz

#21. Just so. You tried to establish a fact from a lack of evidence. Unless the inquiry has been so exhaustive as to explore every possibility, the lack of evidence should never be used to ground a statement of fact. Unlikelihood certainly, but no more. A prematurely assumed fact blocks further inquiry.

Jonathan Renshaw

#22. So do you remember this place?"
"Hard to forget." he snorted. "This is where you tried to kill me. You were so nervous, you kept blushing. Never had someone try to stake me who blushed so much.

Jeaniene Frost

#23. You may have failed at something you tried, but that does not make you a failure.

Jamie Larbi

#24. You tried to show me that love isn't always dramatic. Sometimes it's messy. But most of the time, it's as simple as blood, or just being there for each other. But,

Kade Boehme

#25. Don't worry. You've got no talent to begin with. How hard you tried isn't important either. But each little thing you learn will get you closer to doing the things you really want to.

Hisae Iwaoka

#26. Was it possible, Danny wondered, to be glad you had done something and still be so ashamed of that something that you tried not to think of it?

Stephen King

#27. Wearing a corset, a ball gown, heels and a swan hat with wings to fight in the forest gave me a whole new appreciation for everyday clothes, because you really become that alter ego while wearing those costumes in those environments on the set. They just influenced everything you tried to do.

Lily Collins

#28. You tried to slide his original curse back onto him?" Al said in wonder. "At the restaurant? And I stopped you? Sweet mother pus bucket!" he exclaimed, and I swear, dust sifted from the ceiling. "Rachel, we have to work on this communication thing.

Kim Harrison

#29. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?! You tried to blow up your guardian angel?!"
"It seemed like a good idea at the time ...

S.L.J. Shortt

#30. This is my company. My office. My desk. I make the rules, and you tried to subvert them. Now I'll show you how I run things here when a woman like you tears me away from work.

Lauren Blakely

#31. Bryn, when you were six years old, you tried to bungee jump off a jungle gym by connecting the straps of your overalls to the bars with your shoelaces. Caution has never been your strong suit.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#32. Their father blamed me! And RiverClan cast me out, too. Can you imagine what that feels like? To be rejected twice? To be a loner when all you tried to do was to love?

Erin Hunter

#33. She straightened. "You tried to seduce me, for information."
"You can't hold that against me forever."
"It was last night."
"Well I was running out of options, and I figured it was worth a shot."
Lila rolled her eyes. "You really know how to make a girl feel special.

V.E Schwab

#34. I don't always succeed in creating a delicious dinner for my family; I would, however, argue for the likely success of Taco Night. Who doesn't love a taco? Make it with veggie crumbles! Add fish! Have you tried ground buffalo? The results are always impressive.

Corin Tucker

#35. She was worried these thoughts would crush her if she let them come, but they didn't. You didn't know how heavy they were until you tried to lift them. You didn't know how strong you were.

Ann Brashares

#36. control her. Ohh you tried but in the end she obviously wasn't planning to

Colin McEvoy

#37. You should step out of the box more often. See what the world has to offer."
"I stepped out of the box the night I broke the statue, and look where that got me."
"Exactly! You had a chance to get to know me as a result. Talk about lucky. Think what could happen if you tried again.

Eileen Cook

#38. I think," Dr. Stone said, "that when you tried to kill yourself you got in touch with reality for the first time.

Philip K. Dick

#39. It was the sort of place where you could hear the tumblers of your mind falling into place as you pieced thought together, as you tried to match it to action.

Jodi Picoult

#40. [Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.

Wallace Stegner

#41. You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Jay Samit

#42. Have you tried melatonin?" Yes, I have tried melatonin. I

Gayle Greene

#43. It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

Julianna Margulies

#44. If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

John Lennon

#45. Have you tried to talk to her?"
"What would you like me to say Bastian? OH, I'M SORRY, INEZ. I DIDN'T MEAN TO BITE YOU, MY FANGS SLIPPED.

Lynsay Sands

#46. Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route.

Meghan Ciana Doidge

#47. You tried to drink the East River,Magnus said, and Alec saw, as if for the first time, that Magnus's clothes were soaking wet too, sticking to his body like a dark second skin.

Cassandra Clare

#48. Magnus, remember what happened the last time you tried to tango. Your shoe flew off and nearly killed someone."
"It was a metaphor. He's a Shadowhunter, he's a Lightwood, and he's into blonds. He's a dating hazard.

Cassandra Clare

#49. Don't go for that gun," I said quietly. "I want you tried in a court of law, not dead on this floor.

Louis L'Amour

#50. I've wanted you since the moment you tried to run me over. You are unlike any woman I have met before. You are strong, and courageous, and you do not suffer fools ...

Katie MacAlister

#51. Do you know what I thought when you tried to kill me? The first time? I thought, How can somebody want me dead when no one knows I'm alive?

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#52. Take a chance and step outside. Lose some sleep and say you tried. Meet frustration face to face. A point of view creates more waves. - JOY DIVISION (1979)

Jaime Levy

#53. What you have to give is taught in no college, and I am not sure but you would spoil yourself if you tried to run your mind through a set groove with hundreds of others.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#54. She's like a bullet through an ocean,
I still remember how you moved so slow,
You tried to kill me with a shot gun,
Bang!
Now we're even,
We don't stop till someone's bleeding!

Pierce The Veil

#55. Your heart broke again and again, and you tried to fix the pieces with the salves of the world. But they can only dull the pain; they cannot heal. You have been chained. You've hidden your heart in the dark places. But I came to heal the brokenhearted and set the captives free.

James L. Rubart

#56. There was something about succeeding at what you tried, especially when people needed your talent. Okay, so that talent happened to be illegal breaking and entering, but hey, there wasn't much I was good at, so success felt good nonetheless.

Kalayna Price

#57. Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?

Brent Weeks

#58. Pfft." Dad turned to her. "What do you know about picking
husbands? Last time you tried that, you got stuck with me."
She smiled and hit his arm.
"You two are so gross, you ruin everything." I spun and headed
toward the door.

Kiera Cass

#59. Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

Aleksandar Hemon

#60. But Ash, I can't continue to want you from a distance. To love you and not have you. I'd end up in jail if anyone tried to touch you and God forbid you tried to date someone.

Abbi Glines

#61. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.

Sarah Dessen

#62. The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn't real

Heather James

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

Melanie Chisholm

#64. You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed - so you were a good man just the same.

Kurt Vonnegut

#65. You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.

Audrey Niffenegger

#66. When something is "all in your mind," people tend to think that it's willful, that it's something you could control if only you tried harder or if you had been trained differently. I'm hoping that the newfound certainty that autism is in your brain and in your genes will affect public attitudes.

Temple Grandin

#67. MRS ALLONBY Have you tried a good reputation?
LORD ILLINGWORTH It is one of the many annoyances to which I have never been subjected.

Oscar Wilde

#68. He signed, shaking his head. We're already done for. I get why you tried to leave, but now you're back. There's no escaping anymore.

C.L.Stone

#69. Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would only rear its head more strongly. By the very [attempt] of trying to erase the memory of Michael Myers, [the teenagers] were going to ironically bring him back into existence.

Dennis Etchison

#70. I knew that now - that love wasn't something you could do away with, no matter how hard you tried.

Jenny Han

#71. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Steven Wright

#72. If you tried to sell Mike Birbiglia as a concept, no one would buy it.

Mike Birbiglia

#73. You tried to kill me with your dagger," Valten said calmly. "I can get you disqualified from this tournament." "Are you threatening me?" "Yes.

Melanie Dickerson

#74. He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn't work anymore. In fact, they'd never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world's more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.

Ann Brashares

#75. Don't you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

Kazuo Ishiguro

#76. Trust me, Mer, any man who passes up the chance to be with you is the stupid one."
"You tried to pass me up," I reminded him.
"That's how I know," he replied with a smile.

Kiera Cass

#77. The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons.

Heather Demetrios

#78. I don't mean to change the subject or anything, but have you tried concealer on that zit?
Cynthia Lotte - Hot Six

Janet Evanovich

#79. If you tried to make a show for every person's particular interest, it'd be impossible because everyone is going to consume it the way they want to. All you can do is try to do an hour that makes sense for all.

Scott Van Pelt

#80. It never really crossed my mind that I was ever going to win a major. I always said that if you win a major, that's fine. If you don't, you tried your best.

Vijay Singh

#81. I had a dream about you; you were a zombie in a post-apocalyptic world. I was the only human left, you tried to bite me and I said no. We became good friends.

Rodney Jenkins

#82. Once you'd learned how bad life could go, and how quickly, you tried to protect those who remained.

Kristin Hannah

#83. You tried to kill yourself," she said, rolling her eyes up to heaven and biting her knuckle. "Andrew Hardy was gonna die one way or the other, and one of the choices gave me a daughter in exchange while the other left me with no one." "I

Meredith Russo

#84. High school did that to you, turned you into pieces of driftwood. and the parts of you that you tried to keep in one piece became the property of the wind and the water, sending those dear pieces everywhere you were not.

Julie Murphy

#85. You may eventually decide to breakup, and that's fine, because headaches are not cute, but at least you know you tried.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

#86. Once love found you it clung, no matter how much you tried to shake it off.

Nora Roberts

#87. He stared at her a long moment, his eyes narrowed. "Lass," he said softly, "if you tried to leave me, I fear I wouldn't let you. I fear I would do whatever I had to do, no matter how ruthless, to keep you." "I consider myself warned," she said pertly. "Trust me, I'm not going anywhere. Now tell me.

Karen Marie Moning

#88. Because Christmas did something to the world at large and to individuals in particular. It crystallized all your hopes and fears. It made you yearn and wish and dream. And no matter how hard you tried - it made you realize all the things you were missing in life.

Sharon Kendrick

#89. You know that old expression "It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game". That line was definitely not coined by a chef. Because for a chef, it's only about whether or not you pull through. If you fail, nobody cares how hard you tried.

Marcus Samuelsson

#90. You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

Homer Simpson

#91. I thought of Andrew Martin kissing her. This was what humans did. They kissed. Like so many human things, it made no sense. Or maybe, if you tried it, the logic would unfold.

Matt Haig

#92. Have you tried neuroxing papers? It.'s a very easy and cheap process. You hold the page in front of your eyes and you let it go through there into the brain. It's much better than xeroxing.

Sydney Brenner

#93. If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection. You would see that my soul is a reflection of you.

Colleen Hoover

#94. sometimes people couldn't be saved, no matter how much you wanted it, no matter how hard you tried.

Ann Voss Peterson

#95. Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

Kevin O'Leary

#96. As we plotted Zeke and Sue's course, we utilized an atlas. But, if you tried to recreate the trip, it would drive you crazy since we changed the names of not only the highways, but also most of the towns.

Wodke Hawkinson

#97. Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#98. I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they'd arrest you for crimes against acting.

Bill Nighy

#99. All I know is this: if the idea doesn't hurt anybody else, and if it doesn't involve doing anything wrong, and it keeps coming back to you over and over again, I'd give it a try. If God wants you to do it, he'll help you out, and if not, at least you tried.

Cheryl Shireman

#100. I thought you wanted to catch a camel," you tried again.
"No."
"I want to."
"Well, you go then."
You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it

Lucy Christopher