Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Boucher

We've always opposed unilateral attempts to try to decide these issues. And that position hasn't changed.

Bob DuPuy

We're meeting IBAF and IOC delegates into an attempt to regain baseball's Olympic status.

What looks on the surface like a genuine attempt to move the talks forward is in fact a very clever piece of maneuvering by the U.S.,

Susan Hill

We're going to make every attempt to meet the standards,

Yes, attempts of this sort are being made.

M. John Harrison

World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.

We're extremely troubled by the prospect that the legislature is attempting to hold our proposed merger hostage, and to that end we will be considering all options, including the legal route.

Katrina Kaif

I make an attempt to do different kinds of films. There's no such formula for guaranteed success.

Kenneth Choi

When I moved to Los Angeles, I figured I'm really going to make an attempt to become a real actor. And when I did that, I thought it was time for me to face my parents and tell them what I did.

Peter King

We want to provide very significant tax incentives for businesses to locate there, incentives for housing, and attempt to minimize as much of the red tape as possible by creating one central clearing house for government programs,

We have said from the beginning that we do not intend to roll over in these cases when people bring insubstantial cases to court in an attempt to collect money improperly from Merck,

We have no group that's claimed responsibility. It could be any number of groups attempting to operate inside Iraq.

We have never proposed a tax increase. This lie about tax hikes is a desperate attempt by Berlusconi to rake in some votes...

What the Rams did to him was wrong. It isn't that they traded him. But they put the word out that he was a bad guy in an attempt to justify the trade. But it took people in Pittsburgh about five minutes to realize it was untrue. But Jerome was miserable over what happened in St. Louis, until he had a chance to get out there and prove the Rams wrong.

Maurice Cheeks

We want him to get offensive opportunities - no question. I think that he can get more opportunities in running the floor, getting early post up which he did. Tonight was a little unusual where he had more than a number of attempts at dunking the basketball going to the rim so I think that's a little bit unusual.

The other stores don't seem to be hit like they are -- there was an attempted break just a week ago, ... I'm not sure if what they sell is more attractive.

The persistent efforts to develop the accreted land are unconscionable, ... Any such attempt will be vigorously opposed by the association and its members.

Leila Janah

The perception in Silicon Valley is that if you dress well, you couldn't possibly be smart, or you're in P.R. but couldn't possibly run a company. I remember briefly attempting the Adidas and jeans and sweatshirt over T-shirt look, but I realized I was trying to dress like a young tech geek, and that just wasn't me.

The point comes where there starts to be a disconnect between the attempts to rapidly jack up those prices for faster MIPS and IBM's desire to push the cost of MIPS down,

John Roberts

unprecedented attempt by Congress to structure the office of the president.

We believe that provisions in the proposed legislation regarding reformulated gasoline are back-door attempts at invalidating state laws banning the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a known carcinogen.

We believe that Mr. Baldwin has severe emotional problems. Mr. Baldwin's lawyers attempted to cast terrible aspersions toward Kim rather than focusing on the main issue, which is his daughter.

We are attempting to offer the program statewide.

We are attempting to give the public around the world the opportunity to be involved in very real space missions.

We are attempting not only to show the great movies of the past, but we are also reproducing the very experience that people saw it in when these films were first released.

Ricardo Sanchez

What we're seeing here is clearly a continued attempt and a more concentrated effort by the enemy to try to get all the Iraqis that are cooperating with the coalition to break away and not provide us that support that is so crucial to getting to economic progress and the transition to sovereignty,

What he's doing here is frankly astonishing. This kind of coordination is obviously an attempt to get around legal contribution limits. The bottom line is that public policy is being made not by principle, but by payment up front.

What he had done with these photos was place them in water in a plastic bag with what he says was an attempt to destroy them.

We've been pleased with the response from the community, from both people that have children and the business community. They know we are attempting to put together a quality program for all the students.

We see this as a coup attempt to change the regime and they have to seriously reconsider their decisions.

We see it as a desperate attempt by a gubernatorial candidate who is behind in the polls and has missed every mark it has set for itself.

The government's attempts to shield evidence of its own misconduct from public scrutiny ultimately proved to be futile.

Arun Jaitley

The government prevails on the CBI not to appeal. In the face of this attempt to scuttle the investigations, I think one's conscience should question as to the propriety of what the government and the (Congress) party have been doing and certainly not question the merits of the case.