#trie

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#flower #grow #i #life #mind

Have you ever tried to split sawdust? ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

#split #tried #you

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#different things #get #i #mainstream #play

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people. ↗

— Mike Pence

#deal #first #foremost #governed #i

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening. ↗

— Colin Powell

#civil #civil wars #countries #having #internal

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes. ↗

— Bam Margera

#ground #lasted #me #minutes #mom

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die. ↗

— Michael Ironside

#art #art college #attractive #canvas #college

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#cheaper #clear #clear conscience #conscience #contented

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#better #carries #countries #enjoy #fortune

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#decided #democracy #fixing #i #japan