Famous Quotes & Sayings

So isn't it ironic that Newt Gingrich is attempting to put his ethic problems behind him with a plan that requires a whole new investigation by the ethics committee?

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

William Cobbett

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Brian K. Vaughan

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.

We do believe it's a trend where smugglers are attempting to go underground after 9/11 as a result of the heightened security.

Upon entering the final quarter of our fiscal year 2006, we remain encouraged by the strength of our operations, particularly as it relates to our ongoing efforts to develop a culture of cost efficiency throughout the Company. As we consider attempting to leverage our managed care expertise in and around the Southeastern United States, we remain committed to executing on a strategy of disciplined, opportunistic growth, guided by the mandate to build value for our shareholders.

Toyota is unfairly and illegally attempting to interfere with every business owners' fundamental right to sell his or her enterprise.

Nina Garcia

I firmly believe that 90 percent of the confusion that women feel when they are attempting to put together an occasion-specific ensemble is caused by fear: fear of breaking the 'fashion rules,' fear of violating some long-forgotten tradition, or the basic fear of looking bad.

Ray Brown

Well, I think that I've been learning how to, attempting to learn how to write for a trio. I've sort of taken a page out of Duke Ellington's book. I watched Ellington over the years and it didn't matter who got in that band, he found out what they could do good and then he wrote for them.

I think what Congress is attempting is outrageous.

Tom O'Brien

I think that comes about from never attempting to fail. There's times he'd go out in practice, and I'd say, If you don't throw five interceptions today, you didn't have a good practice.' You have to learn as a quarterback what you can and can't throw.

P. J. O'Rourke

Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.

David Whyte

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

We're attempting to help people move through the pilgrimage from being victims to being victors for the Lord,

We're attempting to drive a wedge between red state senators and liberal interest groups.

We're attempting to contract for materials, such as rock, super sand bags, cranes, and also for modes of transportation like barges and helicopters, to close the gap and stop the flow of water.

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.

Luis Gutierrez

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process.

Alfred Hershey

Joseph Mandell and I began by attempting to make chromatography of DNA work.

We have serious concerns about how far this bill goes into issues completely unrelated to the illicit behavior Congress is attempting to stop.

Jaswant Singh

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

Mark King

The reason we left was out of protest over the way the bishop is handling this and how he is attempting to crush Father Ed over such a simplistic thing.

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.

Hill Harper

On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps.

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.

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

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.

Scott Wright

We received a call from the BB&T in Mount Holly from one of the tellers. They recognized a female subject that was at the bank attempting to do what they call a check deposit split scam.

We're always attempting to balance the sounds of the race with our commentators' voices to give viewers the best experience possible. It's something we're very aware of and something that we're always trying to improve.

We're not the antidote. We're not attempting to be the opposition choice.

Terrorists are attempting to destroy our country ... The government will not waver in its determination to stop them.

Marketing is the major thing we're attempting now. We hope to get the product introduced to people.