Famous Quotes & Sayings

insulted by a campaign that has attempted to amend the Constitution, and in too many states we've seen discriminatory amendments that would deny hospital visitation and domestic partnership legislation.

Louis MacNeice

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity.

Thomas Jefferson

I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives...

In 2004 we attempted to meet with the sheriff quarterly and that didn't happen. In 2005, cooperation did improve. ... He met with us monthly and I think that helped.

He (Paris) tells us he got into some waves in a wake. He attempted to steer out of it and in doing so the boat pitched over on its side,

I built up an excellent relationship with Jon when I was at Hawthorn and it's no secret we attempted to recruit him once before,

Jamie Lee Curtis

I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more.

I attempted to take a required math course during my first semester, dropped the class after having difficulty understanding my professor.

Andre Agassi

I attempted to play in Shanghai with an injury that was not fully healed and it set me back substantially.

I attempted to liberate some sunglasses from the corner drugstore. It wasn't a good idea. So they came charging out of there with ball-bats. I guess they thought I was a pretty vicious individual.

I attempted to do yoga in German, and it was not particularly successful. So at that time, I started thinking about the idea of just movement and how I could move to de-stress.

I attempted to do everything successfully. It was taxing, but I didn't think about it at the time.

Mindy McCready

I attempted to commit suicide after I found out I was pregnant,

Cappie Pondexter

I don't want to say we got complacent, We attempted to play hard.

Hope Davis

I do remember that first night. We attempted to fill the pool and discovered it had a leak. I think Michael Ritchie patched a leak. I remember him standing there with a garden hose, filling this tremendous pool. He was just determined.

Before this year, she's never attempted a 3-pointer but this season she has hit five or six. When she's open the other players look for her. She's a great kid to have. Tonight she was playing really well. She's so unselfish she usually passes up the shots.

If there is a tie at (7-6) they will then look at the overall misses throughout the entire meet. Moffat had cleared 7-5 on his first attempt, I attempted and missed, therefore if at the next height we both missed he would win based on having no misses I had to clear 7-6 no matter what if I wanted to win, so I was only given two attempts at the following height because of my decision to pass.

I'll tell you his record -- attempted robbery, robbery, assault, disorderly conduct, sale of drugs, and punching someone during a transaction involving the sale of drugs,

I just looked on the Internet for certain trends and if anything pops out in the games that Michigan State lost. I think when they attempted less than 16 free throws, they lost every game, and they are a great free throw shooting team. I think there was also was a great discrepancy between wins and losses and how their inside player Paul Davis played. When he played well and scored over 18, 19 points, they usually won.

They believe their son was murdered aboard the 'Brilliance of the Seas' and that Royal Caribbean has deliberately attempted to cover up what happened to George, and to portray this to the media and the public as some sort of unfortunate accident.

They attempted to run an insider trading business as a money making machine.

It's raised as a question mark that the thought of a gun may have averted her attempted rape. It would have been good to point out the existing evidence on that topic.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.

A suicide attacker attempted to enter the police station at 10:30 a.m. When police stopped him, he blew himself up and killed 13 people on the spot besides wounding 13 others.

A suicide attacker attempted to enter the police station at 10:30 a.m. (6:00 a.m. GMT). When police stopped him, he blew himself up and killed 13 people on the spot besides wounding 13 others.

All of us are stunned by these revelations of an attempted cover-up, ... The good news is that the cover-up didn't work.

I have not attempted to hide from it.

Keiji Fukuda

This has never been attempted before. There is a very good chance that we will fail and that we will not be able to stop it.

Pankaj Mishra

Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.