Famous Quotes & Sayings

I believe that there are certain contexts in black communities as a sign of belonging and an attempt to remember that history will be written away.

Samuel Butler

I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other--I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so

I am trying to make a very strong attempt to keep my students happy, ... That is very much my pride to please my children.

Peter Clarke

I am the decision-maker on this project. I have had no attempt from the outside to influence my decision.

I am very disappointed that David decided to break Ohio's election laws. But I think that voters can see right through these kinds of attempts to trick them.

Sean Cunningham

Bush may make serious attempts at reforming the tax code and social security; he's much less concerned with the risk of failure than previous presidents have been. The expected need to replace two or three Supreme Court justices, however, could so poison the water in Washington that very little will get done. (That is, unless he nominates Professor Tyson, who would be a model jurist).

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.

Hopefully this attempt to have our wealthier patrons subsidize our poorer ones will be a success.

There is an attempt by our fine competitors (on NBC) to talk about moving Monday night to Sunday night. Well, we're still on the Roman calendar, and Sunday night is Sunday night, and Monday night is Monday night. ... We believe we will still be the marquee, stand-alone NFL event.

We may have been the only state where something good came out of an attempt to make secret so much of the government's business.

We make no attempt to try to run the vehicle on the electric motor,

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.

Maurice Cheeks

I thought before we attempted to trade Steven, he had started grasping the way we want him to play. Rebounding, giving us energy, I thought he was doing that.

I think with that Ohio State defense it was a competition, it was a rush to get the tackle. That was just the mentality up there. So I attempted to get all my tackles solo because our linebacker, when they come in there, they just hit whatever's in the way. I take pride in that. I try to be a complete corner and I think that's one step to doing that.

I think the backs have done a good job of setting us up. They've got good vision, Cadillac has obviously gotten more attempts than everyone else, and he's done a great job, no question.

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.

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.

Sam Worthington

I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important.

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.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

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 would urge the members of this House to see through these amendments and recognize them for what they are, nothing more than an attempt by the opponents of campaign finance reform to kill this legislation.

Ariel Sharon

The convening of the central committee is an attempt to oust me, ... And those who are trying to do this are coming with requests?

G. H. Hardy

The fact that we're attempting to do this at all is, I think, history-making. We call ourselves the Big Easy, but we never seem to take the easy way out.

The fact that they are having the walk on September 11 is clearly an attempt to link the two,

The fact that George Bush has come to Belfast to meet Tony Blair in this location ... is in a sense a mark of respect for Tony Blair, an attempt to show outside world -- because George Bush doesn't voyage outside the United States all that easily -- it's a sign that he takes him seriously and listens to his advice. It gives him some sort of political payback,

The experience with New World Development proved a company could rebuff attempts by TCI to keep increasing its holding. What New World Development did was to place shares to friendly investors to strengthen its controlling stake.

Duncan Hunter

We'll take a look at how the provisions mesh with existing law and we'll attempt to shape a bill that does the right things in protecting our troops and, at the same time, ensuring that detainees are treated appropriately,

Harold E. Varmus

A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.

That's a very good week. You can imagine the kind of money they spend in their attempt to try to get this stuff through.

I wasn't keeping track of that (the attempt to have everyone score) at all.

J. Taylor

I would hope that it's simply theater to demonstrate their concern about things that a lot of Americans are concerned about and that after the cameras go away, they get back to business. On the other hand, it may well be an attempt to set the stage for real legislation.