Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Keith

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

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

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.

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.

Steve Forbes

I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think at the end of the day, people are going to say, 'what was Obama's record?' Governor Romney's got pro-growth Reaganesque proposals on the table.

This signals that the board plans for the company to remain independent as its attempts a turnaround.

J. J. Johnson

What's different is the focus on deliberate attempts to contaminate the water,

Ilham Aliyev

The opposition seems to be very disorganized, weak, ... Their attempts to create a pre-revolutionary situation in Azerbaijan failed.

Mike Scioscia

The opportunities and the game situation are going to tell the eventual tale of how many attempts he has. But I'm hoping that it presents itself as much as it did because that means he's getting on base as part of our offense.

The Orlando Police Department tells us that this pair had no plans to surrender. In fact, two attempts to pull them over went unnoticed.

I've only had eight field goal attempts this year, so you kind of lose your rhythm. You've just got to prepare yourself for it because it's not as easy as everyone thinks. It's not as much physical as it is mental.

These crude attempts to intimidate judges underscore the urgent need for judicial reform in Egypt.

Henry Hyde

When all the distractions and diversions have been made, at the end of it all we're about one mighty task, and that's vindicating the rule of law, ... Therefore, it's very important that we don't get sidetracked by attempts to cut deals or cry wolf about partisanship, but keep our eye on the ball.

We had three attempts to tie the game late with all having good looks. They just didn't fall for us.

Todd Bertuzzi

I've made my attempts and am still going to try, but I can't change someone else's mind-set on me.

Dwight Gooden

the beast that is always hungry, wanting more coke and laughing at my attempts to get clean and sober.

The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.

It's rare that we see intentional attempts at this sort of thing.

Dave Bliss' attempts to conceal from investigators the truth about improprieties in our men's basketball program represent a profound betrayal of the trust that Baylor University and our players placed in him,

Dailey is definitely not a leader; he's a bully. It's his way or the highway. If you disagree with him, he attempts to intimidate rather than discuss it.

Marc Bulger

It's a combination of a lot of things. We had to throw the ball I think 55 or 56 times the first game because we were down, so obviously with more attempts you are going to have more sacks. Obviously we throw the ball down the field far. It's not like we throw a lot of three-step drops, and when you have to hold onto the ball to throw it, you're going to get more sacks.

It's just another tool law enforcement attempts to use to fight crime,

Frederick Chiluba

It is therefore the duty of the Zambian government to promote and strengthen its judiciary, ... In fact the government should decide which matters they will pursue. Other than being legally folly, the attempts to run parallel civil and criminal matters based on the same facts, material and circumstances, unfairly prejudices me.

Eddie Vedder

It's like we took our aggressions and shaped something positive from them in a very direct manner. Though we'd qualify most of the record as hard-driving, the two quiet ones (Parachutes and Come Back) could be our best attempts yet at pulling the disguises off of loss of life, and even love.

It's good for Wal-Mart to get into California but it's not as if Wal-Mart's future depended on this vote, ... At the same time, what the Inglewood decision could have some effect on is Wal-Mart's attempts to get closer to metropolitan cities, especially if we see other cities around the country putting up similar opposition to having Wal-Mart in their neighborhood.

Mario Monti

That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.

Rebecca MacKinnon

It's much easier to force intermediary communications and Internet companies such as Google to police themselves and their users than the alternatives: sending cops after everybody who attempts a risque or politically sensitive search, getting parents and teachers to do their jobs, or chasing down the origin of every offending link.

Jalen Rose

That's what they do. They lead the league in 3-point attempts for a reason, and sometimes they are going to knock them down.

That's why they wanted to make a record of these attempts to communicate.

Vladimir Putin

All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.