#tried

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. ↗

— George Santayana

#adversity #fire #furnace #gold #men

But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#could #curling #darts #deal #doing

I took a shot and tried to create something world changing and it didn't work out. I gave it everything I had, literally, and now I'm just trying to manage day by day and it's been challenging but my wife and my kids are healthy, and I'm OK. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#challenging #changing #create #day #everything

A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#book #chef #cook #home #i

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#charity #citizens #couple #dollars #gift

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#always #color #flower #god #love

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything. ↗

— Ashley Scott

#anything #being #book #comic #comic book

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#dances #dead #derivative #else #guess

A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#attract #lie #place #should #tried

I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it. ↗

— Dusty Springfield

#found #i #liked #men #men and women