Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerhard Richter

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

Hu Jintao

We are willing to make unremitting efforts together with the DPRK to push forward the traditional friendship under the new circumstance,

Virginia Woolf

They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

We haven't been able to impress the urgency of the need for this on the Senate leadership. I think that's the key. I think in hindsight we should've redoubled our efforts working all the legislators, not just the leadership.

Sidney Crosby

We haven't gotten results, but the effort and the want are there. With that, you're going to get results. It's a matter of time.

Michael Chertoff

The president has been unambiguous in his mandate that we leave no stone unturned, and leave no efforts unexhausted in proceeding to do whatever we can to rescue people and alleviate suffering,

We all need to make an effort to save water wherever possible, including us keen gardeners, but it doesn't mean that our gardens have to suffer.

Those are the types of efforts that get big wins, and tonight was a big win for us.

Nobody wants to lose. You always want to win. Yeah, I was kind of disappointed with the loss but not at the effort that my teammates put out or my coaches. I was very pleased with them (on Thursday).

Antonio Davis

Right now, I'm just trying to lead by example. If I can go out there and show effort each and every time up and down the floor, defensively, offensively, hopefully it will rub off on the next guy.

Right from the goalie out, there was a lot of selfish play tonight. There were some iffy efforts on a lot of guys' parts.

Rob Niedermayer

Phoenix played extremely hard the past two games. They gave us all they had. We had to come up with a big effort in the third.

Raymond Odierno

Police training is a top priority for our military efforts in 2006.

My teammates made a concerted effort to look for me in the low post. And when they look for me, I just try to finish for them.

Boris Yeltsin

Only by pooling our efforts can Russia and the United States find solutions to the most complicated international and bilateral problems, ... promote the formation of a stable and secure system of international relations.

Nick hasn't really pitched a lot, so it was great to get the effort we did from him. We have a very young team with some kids who have never even played the game before so, it's going to take some time.

Sathya Baba

Only that which is got by hard effort will yield lasting benefit.

Ontario's announcement complicates our efforts to reach a long-term negotiated solution to the softwood lumber dispute.

One of the really intriguing things to me is that we actually started this effort in working groups last September, so this was an incredibly quick process. This has got to be one of the fastest, if not the fastest, standard to ever come out of IEEE.

We have a lot of crews up there and are making every effort to protect those structures. It's right in their backyard.

We can't help you unless you make an effort to help yourself.

We can't hang onto this win for too long. We had a great game, but if we don't get the same effort the next game, it's not going to help us in the long run.

We have to value possessions a little more (against CBA). It's going to take an uncommon effort just to play with them.

We just didn't play well. We settled for jump shots. We didn't get to the free-throw line. We played hard, but we didn't play well. The effort was there.

Dwight Howard

We just didn't give up. We were down 29, even though that's a big deficit, you know you never throw in the towel. We made sure we gave a better effort in the second half and try and come back and win the game.

We just didn't come out with any energy whatsoever. It wasn't one or two guys, it was most of the team. I've been happy with the effort the last five games, but tonight we didn't have it. We're not that good a team that we can just show up and win. We went through the motions tonight.

Teemu Selanne

We played pretty disciplined, even though they tried to frustrate us. It was a pretty solid effort all the way around.

Janet Reno

Unfortunately the Miami relatives rejected our efforts leaving us no other option but the enforcement action,

We'll learn a lot from this ballgame, ... Overall, we can't give much better of an effort than we gave.

Kevin Constantine

You have those nights, but we haven't done anything different on the power play in the last two games. We've had the same number of scoring chances. The puck has just found its way to the back of the net lately. The good thing is the effort has been pretty consistent.

William Shakespeare

Nothing can come of nothing.

We're mad. Plain and simple, we're mad and we're disappointed with our effort tonight because this is a game we really should have won. There's a lot of ifs in life, but we're mad and disappointed and that's exactly the way I want them to be. I don't want them to feel good about a game where they only gave effort in the second half.

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