#try

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#crime #deprivation #desperation #leave #life

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#benefited #country #never #protracted #war

I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#buy #i #i think #many #marketplace

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#country #divided #filled #george #george bush

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#gonna #i #many #moved #musicals

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#find #house #i #johnson #like

Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#balanced #balanced diet #bottomless #come #diet

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#be original #because #being #being yourself #exactly

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#friends #get #interested #make #months

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. ↗

— Herman Melville

#church #clergyman #get #go #heavens