Famous Quotes & Sayings

Talk about changing the rules. This is an innovative attempt by West Virginia to gain its previous important role in presidential selection.

Hillary Clinton

Struggles do not end when countries attempt the transition to democracy.

It's ironic that they do that for one event, but for a series of events that will adversely impact the neighborhood, no attempt was made.

It's increasing everywhere, ... The report illustrates very clearly that we really are failing in attempting to prevent the epidemic in most of the world.

There was an attempt to have them released, but the engine of their boat conked out on their way back to Sabah (East Malaysia).

Kate Kelly

The sentencing court never considered the expression of remorse of the defendant, never considered her attempts to help herself and never considered her rehabilitation efforts.

The severe impact of the disaster has placed a profound stress on government at all levels, not to mention that of the individuals and businesses attempting to recover. We're going to have to use limited resources wisely.

Gerry Adams

This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing,

This is just the latest attempt to put a dent in the execution industry and it will take a while to play itself out.

This is just a desperate attempt to deflect attention from a career of blunders and failures.

This is in no way an attempt to usurp the judges' power. We're merely coming back to the table on sentencing.

Bill Gates

This is clearly the most massive attempt at government regulation of the technology industry ever.

Once again, I believe that Netscape either is attempting to rewrite history or deliberately misled me and my colleagues during our June 1995 discussions.

George Lucas

After that only the VHS and DVD copies that people have purchased will be left, ... That's not a problem, as each VHS copy has been encrypted to write commands to any VCR that tries to play them after a certain date to erase the tape. Any dubbed copies of these VHS tapes also contain the encryption. DVD copies of movies were easier to protect. After the same date, the DVDs simply won't play, and will come out as digital gibberish if people attempt to copy them after that date.

It's really their last attempt to try to give a frame to this choice that the public can grasp. It's one of the things that's been difficult for each of them in this campaign, to really frame the choice that the public's going to make in a compelling way, ... This debate gives each side the opportunity to really try to frame for the public what the election's about, and to give the public a better sense of what they're about.

Shinzo Abe

Its regrettable that the company attempted to illegally export equipment to China that can be used for transporting weapons of mass destruction. I expect a full picture will be revealed through the further investigation.

Any attempt to strengthen the surveillance worldwide for H5N1 is a good plan.

Ivan Illich

Any attempt to reform the university without attending to the system of which it is an integral part is like trying to do urban renewal in New York City from the twelfth story up.

Kofi Annan

any attempt to harm him or other leaders is counterproductive.

Any attempt to forecast what skills will be needed 10 years from now is just folly. If 10 years ago someone told you financial analysts were a job that was going to be exposed to intense global competition, a lot of people probably would not believe it but that definitely seems to be a possibility today.

Any attempt to correlate their political contributions to policy is patently false on its face.

Any attempts to turn back the clock such as this one are out of step with the values of the majority of Americans.

It's all very well to say one scandal shouldn't set back the field, but Hwang's team was the field. If his results are false, then after seven years of attempts worldwide, no one has succeeded in getting even the first step in 'therapeutic cloning' to work on a practical scale. At what point do legislators stop throwing away good money after bad?

It's used in serious crimes, such as murder, attempted murder, sexual offences, abductions and missing persons where foul play is suspected, internet luring and child pornography,

It's not that he was Michael Jordan, but who is filling the 10 (points) and four (rebounds per game)? Who is even attempting that? Somebody just has to step up.

For many kids, the only thing they know about money is how to spend it. By making classroom presentations on budgeting, savings and the value of compound interest, bank employees are attempting to turn the tide and create a generation of savers.

Walter Lang

For centuries people have attempted to find the location of the Garden of Eden, placing it in such divergent places as Florida and Babylonia.

For a while, that can is going to take the cake. This was one of the more elaborate attempts -- it required creativity.

Rafael Benitez

I'm delighted with the result and also the performance. Sometimes you can't score a goal with 30 attempts but today it seemed every shot was a goal.

I know why they went after the president. After you've killed the tobacco act, after you've killed an attempt to pass an HMO (reform bill), after you've killed the attempt to put 5,000 new school buildings in America, what else can you do?

I'm sure that the league will attempt to find out who the official was.

Fred Taylor

I'm sure every player in this league, every player that considers himself a competitor, they want the ball in crunch time. I want the ball all the time, ... I want to break the single-game attempt record one day. I could have got it (Sunday) if we had enough plays.

Liz Miller

I'm very concerned about the bond market. I think we have money supply at double-digit growth for a couple of years -- that ultimately has historically led to inflation. I see through the next few months a chance that the bond market (will attempt to) nudge the Fed (to raise rates) again.