Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

I suspect that there will be some mix of taxpayer subsidy and increase in premiums that attempts to partially recoup the losses.

I think it's a great attempt to popularize the book business, and boy, do we need it. It's a good thing, as we try to expand our readers, to put the public into this. I think it's important to have the consumer not only buy the book, but confirm that this is the best book of the year.

It also seems to be in distress. It has made two seemingly deliberate attempts to beach itself.

He left a man on the ground dying, and he didn't attempt to render aid.

Sally Schneider

So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.

There are so many machines connected to the Internet, you will see ... attempts to sweep a whole range of Internet addresses looking for hosts that have weaknesses. It's like testing doorknobs.

What we have attempted to do in this draft is try to make Colonial Avenue much more of a local street - a local cul-de-sac, actually.

Hu Jintao

History tells us that any attempt by a country to realize its interests through the use of threat or force ... will get nowhere. We will never waver in our commitment to the one-China principle.

I think it's an attempt to expand it beyond the immediate work force. It's actually directed primarily at those who may be wavering.

I think it's just a desperate attempt because ain't nobody looking for him, and nobody really expects to see him.

It complements what Yahoo! is attempting to build on the convergence media side pretty nicely.

Henry A. Kissinger

I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as they can to the American people, as the president is attempting to do with these speeches. The public will not forgive you for losing even if it seems to reflect what they thought they wanted.

It is clear that the father was trying to get them out, ... Everyone was attempting to escape.

It is clearly an attempt to get us tied up in court cases.

We expect to oppose any attempt to splinter, to disrupt the operation of the MDL,

Rick Monday

Whatever their protest was about, what they were attempting to do to the flag - which represents a lot of rights and freedoms that we all have - was wrong for a lot of reasons. Not only does it desecrate the flag, but it also desecrates the effort and the lives that have been laid down to protect those rights and freedoms for all of us.

Christine Whitman

There is a great deal of concern about this seeming attempt to couch everything in religious terms. We're not a narrow-minded nation, and at least some of the people trying to define the Republican Party are coming off that way.

Anne Johnson

There is no attempt by Walter Reed to hide the number of patients we receive.

There is no excuse for failing to declare one's business interests. It is simply a matter of filling out a form. Failure to do so constitutes either negligence or an attempt to conceal a possible conflict of interest or even contempt for the Parliamentary ethics process. Either way, there must be consequences.

There is going to be a serious attempt within the present council to try and push for a definition of how you qualify to be a party and what are the rules of the game.

Harvey Levin

What I love about this so much is it hasn't shown its potential. It's more exciting to me to be at a place where I can at least attempt to break some ground than to basically follow a set path.

We take a variety of points into consideration when convening as a group to pick films to attempt to get for screening purposes. One thing we think about before much else is whether or not a local theater, be it Keene Cinemas or The Colonial, will be screening a film and if so, when. The Putnam is technically a second-run theater.

We are extremely disappointed that a few individuals are attempting to hijack those discussions.

John Ashcroft

Today, I can report to you that our investigation has uncovered several individuals, including individuals who may have links to the hijackers, who fraudulently have obtained or attempted to obtain hazardous material transportation licenses,

What you're seeing here is an attempt by reform politicians to take control away from vested interests. I don't know what to expect, because I simply don't know how powerful these guys are.

It is pretty clear they were attempting to move this oil into a crude oil market where there was already a surplus.

It is possible that any attempt to communicate with the outside world could put staff at risk of their lives.

I thought we did take a step forward tonight. If we connect on a couple more shot attempts and don't give the ball away at some inopportune times, I think it's a different ball game. We just have to stay positive and try and continue to build some momentum at the end of the season.

I think we have overall the kind of things that are necessary, but since we've never made this attempt before it is kind of iffy. But I think if we get that far in the process we'll set the table for 2012.

I think a lot of the guilt in the play is what the father feels because of the failure with his first son. He uses cloning in an attempt to start over again.

Scott Horowitz

I think aggressively touching the moon is an understatement. What this mission buys is an early attempt to know what some of the resources we're going to have ... we know for sure that for human exploration to succeed we're going to have to essentially live off the land.

Roy Moore

I think it was an attempt to control the election.