Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

- Alexander Pope

I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.

- Adam West

I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?

- Adam Driver

I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best.

- Art Modell

I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing what I've tried to do for 25-26 years.

- Antonin Scalia

I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

- Annie Lennox

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

- Angelina Jolie

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

- Andrew Young

I tried to do things independently with each child.

- Andie MacDowell

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

- Abraham Lincoln

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

- Alex Haley

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

- Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

- Albert Einstein

A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!

- Alan King

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

- Alan Alda

All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

- Alan Alda

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

- Alain de Botton

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

- Al Pacino

The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.

- Adora Svitak