Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michel Faber

I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.

There is nothing more challenging and rewarding than attempting to succeed with a business in the real world.

The school district is attempting to change the beliefs of students without their parents' consent.

The State is attempting to prove to you that no relationship existed.

The state and the city of Indianapolis are really attempting to pick up the pace a little bit. It's hard to say what corporations are doing.

What's happening right now is that ski manufacturers are attempting to provide a one-ski-does-it-all scenario.

We wish the governor would have vetoed it, but it's not like we're surprised. He and his family were victims of the behaviour that it was attempting to end.

Daymond John

I value an entrepreneur I can get behind and trust, because I know they are attempting to move forward in life.

Mike Birbiglia

Sometimes you'll have a heckler who's actually attempting to be supportive, but you don't realize it. Their way of expressing it is kind of confusing.

The Auburn event isn't designed to surprise anyone. Instead, we're attempting to stress the emergency responding system for practice and to learn.

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.

Hanan Ashrawi

It seems to me as usual they are looking at the wrong address. They should look closer at home. I don't think the Sharon policy of attempting to besiege a whole people ... is a policy of utmost responsibility.

Brian Reynolds

It's a transition period now. We're a constantly changing organism that is attempting to be a blessing to the community. The church is not pushing businesses out.

It's between 35,000 and 45,000 women, all low-income, many of them desperately poor and many of them attempting to get back into the workforce and finding a significant obstacle: the state of their teeth.

It's a pretty hard place to play. But, we're attempting to change a lot of things about Rogers basketball. We've won two big (conference) games on the road now and we're ready to go.

That is a fact. We cannot support a situation where a minority is attempting to impose its will on the majority.

Everyone's gone out today, attempting to carry on their normal activities. We're just carrying on with our scheduled activities.

It's the kind of information necessary for a trial like this. They are attempting to make a link.

It is yet one more example of how extremist groups in various parts of the world are attempting to gain political benefits through drawing attention to their rather misguided causes through the killing of innocent people.

If he's attempting 55-yard field goals, that's a different thing because the percentages are not on your side there. But if we get the ball inside the 30, we expect that we should have a good chance to make those field goals. Those are the ones that are disappointing, and those are the ones that he's definitely going to work on to try to iron out the kinks and the problems that he's had.

I can't think of anything more scary than a woman with a scarred uterus attempting a vaginal birth at home. I'm sure it's happening, and I'm sure some women have already died because of this, and some babies have died.

Susan Collins

I am not attempting to convict the president but not remove him. I am not attempting to find him guilty in the legal sense of criminal wrongdoing,

Kofi Annan

I do not believe that the situation which exists between and within nations where we have extreme wealth and extreme poverty side by side can be sustained in the long term without our attempting to do something about it,

Wayne Allard

I believe he is temperamentally and intellectually inclined to stick to the facts and the law in cases that will come before him on the high court, and that he will refrain from attempting to legislate from the bench,

Douglas Brinkley

If D-Day - the greatest amphibious operation ever undertaken - failed, there would be no going back to the drawing board for the Allies. Regrouping and attempting another massive invasion of German-occupied France even a few months later in 1944 wasn't an option.

By bringing these indictments, the government is attempting to criminalize the type of tax planning that tax professionals engage in on a daily basis.

By breaking his own promises, Chen is attempting to stir up the secessionist sentiments in Taiwan and create confrontations between different groups of people in the island, as well as to provoke the mainland and strain the cross-Straits relations.

Homosexuals are attempting to redefine the family and what constitutes marriage, ... And because they cannot reproduce, they must recruit children into their movement.

Horace Mann

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

The main focus or reason behind the raid yesterday was the fact that there were outstanding warrants for individuals that we were attempting to apprehend,

Henry Cloud

You will not grow without attempting to do things you are unable to do.

Kanye West

Taking 1,000 meetings attempting to get backing to do clothing...