I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.
George C. Marshall

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
Charlize Theron

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
Mikhail Kalashnikov

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.
Kevin Shelley

I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.
Vince Vaughn

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
Vanilla Ice

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
Edward Teller

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
Jerome K. Jerome

Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
Orlando Bloom

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
Tom Stoppard

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.
John Barrymore

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.
Christy Turlington

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
Jonathan Kozol

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
David R. Brower

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.
Stephen Ambrose

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
Leonhard Euler

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth

Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I'm a bad guy?
John Mellencamp

I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
Harry Caray

And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
Steve Yzerman