Famous Quotes & Sayings

Failure to do so constitutes either negligence or an attempt to conceal a possible conflict of interest or even contempt for the Parliamentary ethics process. Either way, there must be consequences.

Failure is permanent only when a person quits attempting to succeed.

Akhil Sharma

'Family Life' is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn't attempt to capture. It was emotionally very bleak.

Peter Storey

I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.

Peter Milligan

What 'Flashpoint' does is examine the inherent inconsistencies in Shade's past and attempt to explain it and give it some logic.

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.

The government will encourage capital outflows in an attempt to have a general balance between capital inflows and outflows.

The government is now attempting to fashion a more effective tax policy to rein in the budget deficit and contain debt.

The government in seeking this data is not attempting to obtain information about individual computer users. Our sole intent is to make the Internet safer for our youth.

Jaswant Singh

When you journey by bus, you are attempting to relate to the common man and woman,

We've hit 100 more free throws than other teams have attempted this year. That's what we try to do. ... It makes a game that's difficult to defend.

Deb Caletti

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

Davey Havok

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.

While it is horrible that some children who take antidepressant medications commit suicide, putting the blame on medicines that help treat millions of persons with mental illnesses is irresponsible and is a blatant attempt to frighten parents, children and patients. There are risks to antidepressant treatment, but the risks of untreated depression are worse.

Without programs like this, it would be nearly impossible for our department to upgrade to modern technology for our volunteers to be able to effectively communicate between not only themselves, but other departments as well. This is a crucial update that we have been attempting to complete since the county first started talking about upgrading their systems a few years ago.

With the company retaining all this information forever, it was just a matter of time before law enforcement would attempt to get data. It finally happened.

Rene Cassin

We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence.

We have been stonewalled from the beginning, ... The main question is: Did Bolton attempt to badger or attempt to change the views of intelligence officers?

Janet Parshall

We're all for the facts about homosexuality getting out, but you won't find them in this publication. This is another attempt by the homosexual lobby to silence any views on homosexuality but its own.

Ilham Aliyev

The opposition seems to be very disorganized, weak, ... Their attempts to create a pre-revolutionary situation in Azerbaijan failed.

Mike Scioscia

The opportunities and the game situation are going to tell the eventual tale of how many attempts he has. But I'm hoping that it presents itself as much as it did because that means he's getting on base as part of our offense.

Eugene Ionesco

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to ''realize'' myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have ''succeeded,'' this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is ''realizable.'' Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.

There is nothing more challenging and rewarding than attempting to succeed with a business in the real world.

The Rehnquist court ... attempted to restore dual sovereignty and the conception that states have functions that cannot be displaced by the federal government.

The Orlando Police Department tells us that this pair had no plans to surrender. In fact, two attempts to pull them over went unnoticed.

Steve Davis

We've heard that from some students, so our attempt is to either prove or disprove that.

We will punish persons who have manipulated football games or attempt to with every means available to the soccer federation.

Ulysses . . . is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud.

We think the Russian proposal is a good attempt to break this stalemate. We hope all sides will use their wisdom to provide new proposals that will create conditions for reviving negotiations.

Why else would the strip clubs be involved or at all interested? It simply is an attempt to threaten the council so that we will give them what (they) want and gut our ordinance, which protects our commercial and residential neighborhoods.

Nicholas Lemann

This year's winners showed extraordinary initiative and creativity while attempting to tell stories of how wars and internal conflicts impact the lives of everyday people. Journalism as a public service was the Kurt Schork tradition, and this year's winners exemplify his legacy.

We didn't feel good about giving up three goals last week. This week, we made a pretty strong attempt to do a better job as an overall group of being better collectively on a defensive end.

We attempted to get (Williams) to come and verify the condition of the deceased,