Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ramana Maharshi

In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

Maxwell Maltz

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.

During emergencies learned ones make efforts using their intelligence.

Erika was not good tonight offensively. She gave the effort but they weren't the kinds of looks we need to get.

Eugenie Scott

Essentially what goes on in these seminars is an effort to tell students they should ignore or deprecate the information the teacher is presenting to them. As a result teachers may teach less evolution, which means we have less science literacy.

Tim Thomas

The result wasn't what we wanted it to be, but the effort pretty much was. Obviously, we were just a little off. They're a good team, but we had the lead. We should have won the game.

Terry Francona

There was a lot of extraordinary efforts tonight by a lot of people. We got ourselves in a position where one slip-up and we lose. We actually put ourselves in a position where we could win in the eighth and we didn't.

There was a lot of effort to keep up what was going on.

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.

We are very appreciative of our bankers' efforts to get this waiver in place.

We are used to getting open without a whole lot of effort in our league (the Northern Lakes League). Those guys switch screens hard and they jump out on you. You've got to be that much better execution-wise.

We're going to be in a recovery effort for a good long time. But the state is not facing the same problems that the state of Louisiana and Mississippi are experiencing.

US efforts between now and March may have to be low profile, but Washington need not be dormant.

You get a team at home and when they get back to their house they're a totally different team. We're used to that and we expected this effort out of Green Bay.

Jim Caldwell

You find it to be true, when tragedy strikes, oftentimes you find an opportunity out on the field to liberate yourself from some of your problems and troubles. That's what I think we were able to do. The effort was good out there. They ran around and got after it. But prior to the game, and when the game was over, they were in a somber mood.

You look at a lot of players who play on this level, and they don't have the talent like I do. There are a lot of people who wish they had it. To have it and not do anything with it is bad. I am not saying I am not going to make mistakes and have my ups and downs, but I am just showing the effort and the will to want to get better.

Michael Mullen

I'm a Vietnam veteran. I was here when there was no public support, not just for the effort in Vietnam, for the mission in Vietnam, but for our men and women in uniform.

Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

This was a big weekend for us. We got a lot of big contributions, a nice effort by the entire team to win this series.

Ken Hitchcock

What's disappointing is we had a lot of effort. We made some mistakes. You don't want to waste efforts like we had tonight.

Wayne Gretzky

What records show are consistency, and that's what he's shown in his career. When a guy gets that many wins it's from a lot of effort and a lot of hard work and a lot of hours. I know the players tonight wanted him to get this at home.

What people don't understand is that all of the events are valuable. Inner-tube water polo, Frisbee, they're all important. You have to put the same effort into each sport.

Walt Kyle

We got a lot of opportunities. I can sit here not happy we lost, but I'm fine with the way we played. If we have the same effort (tonight), we'll be in good shape.

We got a lot of good offensive effort from a lot of different people. Sarah played a great game today ... offensively, defensively, doing some nice things. This is the way that we feel like she's going to be able to play all of the time.

We got a chance, 40 minutes away from actually making it to the Tournament. We'll need even more effort (tonight).

We gave everything we had. I can't be more proud of the effort we gave.

We gave a great effort (Friday). I don't think we played exceptionally well on offense, but I think defensively we really competed.