Famous Quotes & Sayings

This has been a very demanding time for everybody involved, whether it?s the people on boats attempting to do a rescue or the family members whom I?m sure are totally in shock and don?t want to believe this has happened to their loved ones.

They (the guidelines) are designed as a desperate attempt to fend off real regulation of drug ads.

All of our attempts to reach out to people and get people to move on this have fallen on deaf ears. We're frustrated.

A lot of people were going on about suicide attempts but this wasn't one. You couldn't have done it if you had tried.

This is a shocking attempt on the life of a respected human rights defender and champion of the rule of law.

Ariel Sharon

This is a serious event, an attempt by the Hezbollah to escalate and ignite the northern frontier.

Dwight Schultz

This is a scientist, but he wasn't making an inquiry. This was an attempt to debunk. But why debunk something that is so patently stupid?

Fausto Bertinotti

This is an unacceptable proposal ... He (Berlusconi) is now trying to dodge the outcome and attempting to put pressure on the majority.

Brian Sewell

This is another example of meritless gigantism that could be anywhere, and is the least successful of the gallery's six attempts to exploit its most unsympathetic space.

This is an orchestrated political response and an attempt to gain as much political mileage out of this shooting as they possibly can get,

Joseph Farah

This is not a quickie, exploitation book attempting to capitalize on the worldwide publicity ultimately generated by Terri's story, ... This is the powerful, insightful and definitive story, told by a dedicated and hard-working journalist who made it her business, after nearly three years of covering this life-and-death conflict, to bring it to the attention of the national and international media.

Margaret Thatcher

This is not the first such Europe-wide attempt to bully national electorates.

This is really the first -- as far as I'm concerned -- the first true attempt on the part of the U.S. government to help farmers get into the world market,

This is really like a lab experiment in the real world. This is an attempt to understand how hydrogen-power vehicles refuel and work.

Eric Topol

This is such a big and important medical technology, and there's not a systematic attempt in getting these devices interrogated if a patient dies.

This isn't simply a public relations strategy to pretty up an image. Rather, it is an energetic attempt to tell our story and also become a better company in the process.

Joseph Needham

The whole history of calendar-making is that of successive attempts to reconcile the irreconcilable, and the numberless systems of intercalated months, and the like, are thus of minor scientific interest.

This groundbreaking study gives new hope to people with type 2 diabetes who, despite their attempts to control blood glucose and take medications, fear these life-threatening events,

This day, like all days, holds great potential.Everyone deserves breathing space.Anxiety is nothing more than the attempted unification of opposing forces.Don't let your email dictate your priorities.

This country and our Constitution guarantee freedom of speech and association. Censorship at our borders is directly contrary to fundamental American values. Attempts to suppress freedom of speech and association are beneath our country - not to mention a waste of government resources intended to keep Americans safe.

This Council has a shameful record of treating nationalists as second class citizens and of attempting to deny any expression and recognition of the nationalist tradition in the city boundaries.

There was some type of explosion either heard or felt by the miners attempting to go in the mine for a shift change. They then backtracked out of the mine.

Brandon Phillips

There was pretty good odds that we were definitely disturbing someone that was attempting to convalesce, or a surgeon who is attempting to do some complicated microscopic vascular procedure.

There was no resistance, no attempt to flee or anything like that. It was a very, I hate to use the word, it was a very routine investigation and arrest. Just so happens that he's someone who is of some prominence and so everyone is making a big deal of it.

There was no attempt to determine who was accountable on the 9/11 Commission. This time, there's got to be accountability. If you're an elected official, you should be inviting accountability for yourself.

There was no attempt by IDOT to drag this case out.

There were no poisons made. There seemed to be a pathetic, clumsy, amateurish attempt to make some by a man who was conceded by all to be a difficult, anti-social loner.

There were attempts to improve the work conditions of the police, but the corruption continued as in other administrations.

Warren Rudman

The Republicans are very sensitive to the idea that the Democrats are attempting to embarrass the White House, even when there's a legitimate issue to look into.

Edward Kennedy

The Republican proposals of finding of facts are really not the findings of fact, they are findings of fiction, ... It's a desperate attempt to further embarrass the president of the United States and it's an attempt to save their own political position.

There is no unit that is directly reportable to the Secretary of Defense for clandestine operations as is described in the Washington Post article. ... Further, the department is not attempting to 'bend' statutes to fit desired activities, as is suggested in this article.

Jay Rockefeller

The report does further document Saddam's attempts to deceive the world and get out from under the sanctions, but the fact remains, the sanctions combined with inspections were working and Saddam was restrained.

This looks like a shameful attempt to encourage public schools to teach Christianity.