#tried

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#insurrection #john #john brown #murder #slaves

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#first #first time #foot #had #hundred

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

#certain #certain time #documents #got #important

I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, "Poor thing." I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better. ↗

— Elijah Wood

#better #breakdown #comfort #comforted #cry

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ↗

— George Edward Woodberry

#defeat #failure #failures #tried #true

I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#i #know #lost #lost love #love

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#could #gig #odd #smaller #stones

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#architecture #buildings #completely #consistent #later

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#i tried #man #musical #pay #recurring

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

— Steve Yzerman

#do the right thing #i #i always #right #right thing