#tried

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. ↗

— George Washington

#before #confidence #courteous #few #give

I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids. ↗

— Robbie Williams

#calm #deliberately #down #eventually #good

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#insurrection #john #john brown #murder #slaves

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#first #first time #foot #had #hundred

There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#certain #certain time #documents #got #important

I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#i #know #lost #lost love #love

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#fun #going #great #had #i

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#brings #building #could #done #effects

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. ↗

— Alex Haley

#find #good #i #i tried #much

I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#commercials #cutting #different #drinks #i