Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Frauenfelder

Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.

Every time the SWAT team made an attempt to go in, he would fire on them, exhausting rounds most of the night. Tear gas and flash grenades didn't work,

Every time the president wants to say something important they cut it ... this is blatant censorship and an attempt to prevent him from getting his voice across.

Every Friday, you get on the phone to the weekend producers to influence them. You attempt to feed quotes and information to convince them that they'll make news on their show.

Based on a recent meeting, they made no attempt to communicate. The project can work just fine without my involvement.

Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law.

Attempts to protect the current level of immigration by wrapping it in the language of tradition or humanitarianism generally distort both history and the practical realities of our own era.

Attempts are out there to pick up what science is giving.

Attempting to reunify her with Aida is the worst thing that could possibly happen. I can think of a million scenarios better than that. I have lost faith that she will ever improve her parenting skills.

attempting to play both the race and the class-warfare cards.

Attempting to exploit converged services purely to squeeze more cash from consumers on a traditional subscription model will not work.

Attempting to develop a piece of land without doing the appropriate due diligence can lead to unexpected surprises during the project. Failing to do so is one of the main reason as to why companies can go bankrupt after the project has commenced.

attempted to intimidate or harass the owner, her business and her husband.

Tom DeLay

attempted to browbeat and coerce' the second grand jury to change its decision not to indict DeLay so there would be no public record of a rejection.

Scott Keith

At the high school, even with my best attempts to keep students in school, many will graduate on me in January,

Phyllis Schlafly

Do you ever wonder why the internet is so polluted with pornography? The Supreme Court just reminded us why: it blocks every attempt by Congress to regulate the pornographers.

Stephen Toulouse

Currently this exploit is not publicly available, but we continue to urge customers on older versions of our operating systems to deploy MS05-051 to help protect from attempted exploitation,

Robert Shapiro

Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.

Crude oil prices took a jump after the attempted attack. Crude is the biggest factor in determining gas prices, and $2 per barrel in one day is quite a hike.

This thoughtful and careful opinion will be very important in the history of Florida because it is a strong affirmation of the privacy rights of the people of Florida and a strong rebuke to politicians who attempt to interfere in medical decisions that should be left to all of us and are simply not the business of politicians.

We're disappointed, and we'll work with the IOC in an attempt to reinstate baseball.

There have been attempts this year to solve the bottleneck in the refinery part of the energy equation. That is still not resolved.

We did a good job coming out of the gate, and held them to four field goal attempts in the first quarter.

We didn't make a three and that hurt. Only free throw attempts hurt and 29-15 on the glass is pretty distinctive.

We didn't kill them. The court sentenced them to death. There is a huge difference between killing and transferring the defendants to the court. They carried out an operation, an attempt on the president's life.

We have demonstrated that the complainant has a penchant for making false allegations of rape or attempted rape. That has been demonstrated.

Bogus arguments are going out to delay the inevitable competition. Our competitors are making false accusations to attempt to maintain their monopoly. We will continue to offer communities the same benefits as other companies, and government, public and educational channels will still be provided. Also we will be paying higher franchise fees to the municipalities, and that's money that they may need in the community.

We are very confident that a number of states throughout the country will now move forward in attempts to replicate Oregon's very specific law.

Bill Cowher

We're going to attempt to get as many people as we can signed to extensions and hopefully get our draft picks in on time.

We're going to attempt to come up with solutions in helping the filtering process be successful.

Vodafone has been struggling with its Japanese unit for some time and attempts to turn it around have so far met with limited, if any, success. This has frustrated Vodafone's management and investors alike.

We do see this as an attempt to hang him and put the screws to him.

Miguel Syjuco

I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My problem with nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We start to exclude people.