#tried

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#because #her #i #power #seized

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. ↗

— Robert Casey

#awful #common #common good #ever #felt

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#does #failed #much #succeeded #takes

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#duty #felt #i #i tried #much

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it. ↗

— Barry Switzer

#head #heart #him #his #implant

We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks. ↗

— Dean Rusk

#cow #flanks #gives #just #kicked

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. ↗

— George Santayana

#adversity #fire #furnace #gold #men

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#age #both #characters #i #i tried

For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#barack #barack obama #bill #bill clinton #bush

All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#big #case #children #ears #faces