Famous Quotes & Sayings

We hope in this final fund-raising effort to raise between $15,000 and $20,000 for equipment.

On the state level, these efforts will continue.

Kirk Hinrich

Our close-outs have been bad. We haven't been making the second and third efforts that we normally make.

Researchers will look at the OS level, as well as at mobile Web-browsing applications, in an effort to take mobile technology to the next level.

Remember, the power outages are what bedeviled recovery efforts after Katrina,

Jeff Jones

Pierce is the story of the game. He sets the standard for this team and his effort pushes this team along.

It doesn't have to be overwhelming. It's not worth the effort -- you don't have to do everything yourself.

It does take a concerted effort to get women on the bench. There was a lot of outreach to encourage more female applicants.

I think I'm disappointed not in the effort of our team, but in making plays.

We should have been out of there in five. We just weren't focused and I was disappointed by the effort. We talked about how important it was to stay focused for games during the week and we just didn't get that kind of effort for whatever reason.

Tom Burnett

We are very sure that he led the effort to take the plane back.

Mark McClellan

We are supporting that effort through modifications in our payment system by not following the usual and standard Medicare and Medicaid rules,

We had people step up and some people go down, and it was hard-fought all the way to the end. It was a team effort all the way down the line.

We couldn't win a puck battle. I thought our effort was fine, but we made some glaring mistakes and lost battles.

Dave Stephens

Brandon does a lot of great things offensively. He had a tremendous game today, but it was a total team effort where everyone stepped up and contributed.

The last two years on the guys' side, we've really graduated some athletes. Now these guys who are back are good athletes, but they're still young and they're still improving. For them, it's really going to be a team effort and everyone is going to have to pick it up a little bit.

James M. Cain

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

John F. Kerry

I will not stop in our efforts to hunt down and kill the terrorists.

John Dos Passos

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.

John Calvin

The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.

Frank B. Kellogg

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.

Ike Skelton

All of these are necessary right now. Otherwise, much of the efforts of the military will be shut down,

All the effort that people have put forward, all the visits from strangers and the mayor and governor, that right there is what's keeping our heads up.

Josef Albers

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid unaccustomed thoughts.

Khaled Hosseini

There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in northern Afghanistan and we have already begun doing so.

Khaled Hosseini

At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.

Khalil Gibran

In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.

Kerry Stokes

The only way of making money is for effort. The only time I've ever lost money is when I've purposely said, "I'm doing this to make money." And I've actually on three occasions lost significant sums. I have made wealth when I've actually made a contribution to something, when I've done something I thought I could do better than somebody else or have done something better than somebody else does it.

Narendra Modi

Even small efforts to bring about a change in the social fabric eventually reap large fruits.

Narendra Modi

Allocating budgets will not suffice. We need to make focused efforts at developing the tribal belt of Gujarat

Napoleon Hill

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

Napoleon Hill

If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another...until you succeed.