Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isn't this real political will? ... Syria is doing all it can do, but the problem is on the other side. They like to make accusations, not action. On the other side, there is no efforts whatsoever to stop these people.

John Prendergast

I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed me the most was his humility.

Earl Boykins

When you lose, it's disappointing. The effort we put out in the third quarter was horrible.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

very enthusiastic about any collaborative effort to move this field forward.

We are meeting with our contractor, and we want to fast track the construction so it will be finished by Nov. 1. We are mobilizing all our efforts on this project.

We are making every effort to provide the individual needs for the clients.

We are making every effort to help employees find positions in nearby stores.

Bruce Bochy

What a nice job he did, ... He gave us a great effort there. It was an outstanding ballgame. We needed it, because we didn't do a lot of scoring, either.

This is the pay day for the work and the organization all the effort - the struggles to get to this point. This is why we do it. It makes you feel like you have contributed to something magnificent, something outside yourself. That you've helped a family have an opportunity of a lifetime and how many times can you say that?

This is the meeting in which the relationship between the two will be defined, in which any understandings that they will reach on the future of their joint efforts in the peace process will be determined.

This is the kind of thing we need to do. I don't have a big scoreboard in my office, depicting which groups had taken cuts. I think you can say the whole family is participating in the effort to turn GM around.

This is unbelievable. Tonight was just a great team effort from top to bottom. We are just glad to be going back to the Frozen Four.

This is totally unacceptable. This is going to have to be fixed, and right now. It's pretty completely compromised, so there is going to have to be a significant construction effort to finish it and make it right.

Bill Richardson

This is the wrong resolution at the wrong time, ... It will undermine our efforts to get the peace process back on track and hurt everyone's interests, including those it is most intended to help.

Jerry Sloan

They pretty much manhandled us all the way around. We didn't have much of any kind of effort to stop them.

They really make an effort at outreach. I think that's an indication of how they're going to be involved in the whole community.

They're hot markets, but sometime you need to put your efforts where they're most likely to have success.

Dwane Casey

Tonight was a disappointing effort. I thought we competed the last three quarters but in the first quarter we did not compete, we participated, and that's not acceptable.

Dalai Lama

It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death.

Dalai Lama

We have to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us.

Maurice Cheeks

I know John had seven turnovers but his effort was there. He is not used to playing as many minutes as he has been playing. This is a test for him to keep playing and this is a test for all of us to find a way to get ourselves out of this.

I have repeatedly said that success requires concerted efforts and support of the fans.

Andy Williams

In the second half, the effort was there but unfortunately that second goal made it too much for us to come back.

If you want your town to be pedestrian-friendly, you need to persist in your efforts over time. You can't just do one thing, either. You need a multiple strategy.

Rio Ferdinand

In my mind, and in a lot of the lads' minds, we are still concentrating all our efforts on finishing second.

In exceptional circumstances, we will make an effort to spread the rise.

Janet Reno

It has just been an extraordinary effort on the part of so many,

I just talked to them tonight about how their effort and execution needs to be consistent.

Larry Brown

I just love the effort tonight. But when you don't have the win that makes it tough.

Elvis Costello

I just hope we keep in our minds that an effort like this can never be too expensive.

I just feel like a lot of our effort went for naught.

I put more effort into doing it. I know I can do it now. I'm a lot stronger than I was when I got here. I have more energy and the motivation to do it now.

Jean Chatzky

I'm big on setting goals, but I also think that if you have too many lofty ambitions and set goals for everything, you can sabotage your efforts by overextending your brain.