#trie

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet. ↗

— Ferdinand Piech

#door #during #me #nobody #out

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it. ↗

— Robert Plant

#die #equal #financial #give #hundred

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#cancer #despite #died #efforts #happened

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#aside #fantastic #fashions #first #hold

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#centuries #combating #death #demon #doom

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment. ↗

— Frank Press

#computers #equipment #first #started #tried

Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#countries #economic #itself #political #presented

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#bar #i #i think #i tried #mars

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#acceptance #countries #feel #get #grateful

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#berlin #berlin wall #communist #countries #different