#tried

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#emphasize #i #i tried #interest #make

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#get #lives #look #part #past

I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.' ↗

— Fantasia Barrino

#american idol #been #companies #different #far

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty. ↗

— Roy Bean

#been #good #good men #guilty #heaven

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#about #absolutely #absolutely nothing #fairly #great

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat. ↗

— Geoffrey Boycott

#batting #field #get #had #him

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#am #any #being #black #every

I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#become #by the time #family #family man #girl

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it. ↗

— Dimebag Darrell

#come #different #different things #find #hear

I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics. ↗

— Im Dong-Hyun

#compete #desire #first #first time #forgot