Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though the timing is difficult for us, we'll survive. We'll get through this. I think Ned has enough integrity, that even though he is aware of our strategy, he's not going to steal our people or attempt to steal people that we're discussing final arrangements with. I think Ned can draw a line in the sand.

Even the incurable optimists, as some of us are, are deeply worried. Six years down the line in the attempt to build democracy this is what we get: violence in the land, and a government in breach. The only thing happening is politics. It is motion without movement.

Sarah Mlynowski

Even though I knew my way around Facebook, Twitter terrified me. RT? OH? Hootsuite? Huh? My Twitter-savvy friends attempted to explain what a hashtag was, but, still mystified, I signed up for an online Twitter 101 class. Yes. I'm geeky like that.

Bill Gates adamantly denies ever making such a comment. This is just another attempt to deflect interest from the real issues in this case.

Bill Gates adamantly denies ever making such a comment, ... This is just another attempt to deflect interest from the real issues in this case.

Black Males Left Behind. One reason for maintaining optimism is that so few serious attempts to help poor fathers have been made.

Ahmed Zewail

It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.

Ben Mezrich

I see myself as attempting to break ground. I definitely am trying to create my own genre here... I'm attempting to tell stories in a very new and entertaining way.

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

Charles Schumer

While this nomination did not warrant an attempt to block the nominee on the floor of the Senate, the next one might.

You are seeing a little bit of rebound in some of the worst-hit sectors. It's clearly a short-term attempt at trying to find some stabilizing level.

Everybody experiences stress. The key is how effectively people deal with and manage stress. People who turn to comfort food or smoking are starting a vicious cycle. Their attempts to reduce stress can actually lead to health problems that result in increased stress.

Pablo Picasso

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?

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

Every Friday, you get on the phone to the weekend producers to influence them. You attempt to feed quotes and information to convince them that they'll make news on their show.

Based on a recent meeting, they made no attempt to communicate. The project can work just fine without my involvement.

Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law.

Attempts to protect the current level of immigration by wrapping it in the language of tradition or humanitarianism generally distort both history and the practical realities of our own era.

Attempts are out there to pick up what science is giving.

Attempting to reunify her with Aida is the worst thing that could possibly happen. I can think of a million scenarios better than that. I have lost faith that she will ever improve her parenting skills.

attempting to play both the race and the class-warfare cards.

Attempting to exploit converged services purely to squeeze more cash from consumers on a traditional subscription model will not work.

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.

I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash!

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

We did a good job coming out of the gate, and held them to four field goal attempts in the first quarter.

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.

We will punish persons who have manipulated football games or attempt to with every means available to the soccer federation.

We've never seen before a case involving so many different attempts to obtain information illegally.

We felt we had been badly let down by Historic Scotland. They were concerned about catering for visitors to the castle and some health-and-safety issues, but suggestions were made to resolve these and with a bit of goodwill and better joint working it could have happened. At the time, I don't think there was a meaningful attempt to do so but we need to ensure that these concerts happen next year.

Moshe Safdie

We inherited a site with a large, bunker-like structure and made every attempt to weave it into the narrative of the project. The lower portion of the building, with its militaristic past, represents the first portion of Rabin's life as a warrior. The upper portion of the building, with its mission of education, its expansive views, and symbolic dove's wings, represents the diplomat and mediator that he became.

We do see this as an attempt to hang him and put the screws to him.