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Quotes About Tried

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
~ Abraham Lincoln
What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
~ Abraham Lincoln
vision, making his father's face seem to fade from sight. The heavy weight of his father's head grew lighter. Tom tried
~ Adam Blade
You tried to …? How?' 'In the time-honoured fashion,' he said. 'My cuffs are too tight to gratify you with a view.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
My job was to give 'The Secret Life of Pets' production team lots of options when it came to Duke. So that's what I always tried to do.
~ Eric Stonestreet
The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
But nothing new to him was that same pain; Nor pain at all; for he so oft had tried . . . and lov'd so oft in vain.
~ Edmund Spenser
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
~ Alexander Pope
I really enjoyed doing stand-up. Andy Kaufman was a big hero of mine. I tried to do conceptual stuff like he tried to do.
~ Matt Besser
He's just . . ." I tried, wanting to say "sweet" or "caring" or "funny"—because they're all totally true. But instead, I said, "He's just a normal boy." "Hmph," Macey scoffed. "I know lots of normal boys." I looked at her. "I don't.
~ Ally Carter
Jesus did not all of a sudden one day start spouting nice sayings about God. No, when he began his public ministry, he was speaking out of a life that had been tested and tried.
~ Richard J. Foster
I tried to dredge up the same reaction other girls had around Marcus, but nothing happened. No matter how hard I tried, I just didn't have that same attraction His hair was too blond, I decided. And his eyes needed a little more green.
~ Richelle Mead
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
~ George Haven Putnam
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
~ Abraham Lincoln
I tried to not peek," said Dean. Confused, Parker paused mid-bite, then lifted a brow. "Tried?" "I'm male and straight.
~ Ann Bruce
That he attacked the religion of his time because it was cruel. That this excited the hatred of those in power, and that Christ was arrested, tried and crucified. For many centuries this great Peasant of Palestine has been worshiped as God.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
The case being tried involves a question of ultimate truth — the question of who God is and where he stands; and for just that reason, it is God who will inevitably do the judging.
~ Fleming Rutledge
Mascara is the only makeup I actually care about - I've tried them all. I use Diorshow when I'm trying to be fancy, but for every day, I use Blinc.
~ Kirsten Green
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
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
~ Abraham Lincoln
Dost thou think," said Mejnour, "that I would give to the mere pupil, whose qualities are not yet tried, powers that might change the face of the social world? The last secrets are intrusted only to him of whose virtue the Master is convinced. Patience! It is labour itself that is the great purifier of the mind; and by degrees the secrets will grow upon thyself as thy mind becomes riper to receive them.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.
~ William Shakespeare