Famous Quotes & Sayings

To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmill to which the rest of us feel chained incites our envy, and therefore our fury. We do not suffer him to go unpunished.

Sharon Kay Penman

Whenever I've had to tamper with history for plot purposes, I make sure to mention that in my author's note, and I try to keep such tampering to a bare minimum. I also attempt to keep my characters true to their historical counterparts. This is not always possible, of course.

Whenever I attempted to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love. Thus were love and pain divided in me.

We think the Russian proposal is a good attempt to break this stalemate. We hope all sides will use their wisdom to provide new proposals that will create conditions for reviving negotiations.

Why else would the strip clubs be involved or at all interested? It simply is an attempt to threaten the council so that we will give them what (they) want and gut our ordinance, which protects our commercial and residential neighborhoods.

Nicholas Lemann

This year's winners showed extraordinary initiative and creativity while attempting to tell stories of how wars and internal conflicts impact the lives of everyday people. Journalism as a public service was the Kurt Schork tradition, and this year's winners exemplify his legacy.

The periods between my 11th and 18th years remain the most vivid in my memory because this was the time of my first attempts at experimentation, which might never have been made had I lived in the city. I made hazardous investigations of the principles of flight, launching myself from the tops of haystacks with a homemade glider.

Umberto Eco

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.

Elizabeth George

I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.

Emily Mortimer

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

Aneurin Bevan

No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

George Ayittey

Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them.

Bobby Knight

I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it.

Billy Collins

Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.

We have been stonewalled from the beginning, ... The main question is: Did Bolton attempt to badger or attempt to change the views of intelligence officers?

Janet Parshall

We're all for the facts about homosexuality getting out, but you won't find them in this publication. This is another attempt by the homosexual lobby to silence any views on homosexuality but its own.

Ralph Merkle

We don't attempt to predict what will happen. We can describe what is possible within the laws of known physics. Physics is well understood.

What we are really attempting to do here is make sure you have antibody defense after you stop the antibiotics, ... Should one of those dormant spores come around, we can then take care of it.

J. J. Johnson

What Washington could not understand was why none of those who held power on the British side made any attempt to learn about the American people, their history and views. None of them grasped that the Colonies had had representative governments since their inception.

Scott Horowitz

What this mission buys us is an early attempt to get to know what the resources are. We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed we're going to have to eventually live off the land.

Scott Horowitz

What this mission buys us is an early attempt at getting to know what some of the resources are there that have large implications on what we do in future exploration, especially in the near term as we go and do the missions to the Moon and as we're preparing to go . . . to Mars. We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed, we're going to have to learn eventually to live off the land.

We've received nothing from them in good faith. They basically don't want to pay anything. Now the attempt is to try to go bankrupt.

John Turner

We've reached a real breakthrough with the summit in our collective attempt to ensure that this is a successful gathering of the global family,

Mike Thibault

We were on target to do what we needed to do. It's just when you end up with Sacramento shooting 67 field goal attempts and we shot 56. ... Basketball becomes very black and white to me sometimes. ... Turning the ball over was the way we lost the game.

What happened with the Internet is that people tended to define their companies by the channel in which they operated. But really when you look at what those businesses do, they all do the same thing. They attempt to generate response and value and measure that value. And they try to get people to engage with something deeper, like content, or whatever it might happen to be.

What happened to this driver, he was robbed, attempted to flee the scene, and he was shot, I believe.

Robert H. Schuller

What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.

'Winnie The Witch' transgresses all cultural boundaries. Amusingly, there have been attempts to deconstruct the meaning of the books - that Winnie represents society and Wilbur the disabled - but I think it's just a great story.

Kofi Annan

I do not believe that the situation which exists between and within nations where we have extreme wealth and extreme poverty side by side can be sustained in the long term without our attempting to do something about it,

Pat Cash

I believe he needs to do that a little more, as (Andre) Agassi did in the final - take some chances with semi short balls and attempt winners or attack,

Wayne Allard

I believe he is temperamentally and intellectually inclined to stick to the facts and the law in cases that will come before him on the high court, and that he will refrain from attempting to legislate from the bench,

Ariel Sharon

I believe that disobedience is the worst thing that can happen, ... It is an attempt to bring about the destruction of the state of Israel and it must be prevented in any way. My instruction in these instances is clear: Political protest -- yes; political violence -- not under any circumstances.