Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward McKendree Bounds

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Richard Hofstadter

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Samuel Butler

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

William Arthur Ward

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

Rudyard Kipling

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Robert Fick

I don't give a ----. I was trying to make a play.

Reginald Delk

I don't know. We're soul-searching right now, just trying to get a win.

Shay Espinoza

I don't know why, but that's what they were trying to do: take my baby.

Jeremy Corbyn

I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.

Howard Safir

What we find is that many of the people involved in minor crimes are the same people that are involved in major crimes,

Kevin Wilcox

I think the elaborateness of the crime itself was quite unique and extensive. It seemed to be a full-time job for these two individuals.

Charles Mathews

There is no crime scene, there are no forensics and we have no witnesses.

Mike Forest

Law enforcement is a glaring example. We have separate booking, separate road patrols. We have two crime labs.

Jan Eliasson

International issues are national, and so many local issues - migration, communicable diseases, organized crime - end up touching everyone. At the same time there is such suspicion. It is quite a paradox.

Bill Hill

His guilt of this heinous crime is not in question,

Jon Bruning

I'm tougher on crime -- I'm so tough it makes me want to throw up sometimes, ... How tough on crime can we get before it gets to be ridiculous?

Mike Marshall

If there's been a crime committed, there has to be a suspect. And if there's a suspect, it would be nice for someone to tell us who that is.

Bob Beasley

If passed, some of the money would come from the state crime victims fund. As a result, much of the training would be about victims of crime.