Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

George Henry Lewes

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

Haile Selassie

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

Greg Peterson

It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit.

Jay Inslee

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.

Judith Butler

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

Moliere

Time has nothing to do with the matter.

Moliere

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

Milton Friedman

Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. … “And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.

Mike Ditka

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did.

Nathalie Sarraute

Chacun peut e prouver en soi ce double mouvement: de s ir de s'inte grer a' la socie te , besoin de se re aliser par soi-me" me en dehors d'elle. We all have this double impulse within ourselves: the desire to integrate into society, and the need to fulfil ourselves outside of it, through our own efforts.

Greg Kinnear

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Gloria Feldt

What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

Ernest Shackleton

I do not intend to sacrifice the scientific utility of the expedition to a mere record-breaking journey, but say frankly, all the same, that one of my great efforts will be to reach the southern geographical Pole.

Ice T

With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it's like dissing 'em.

He ran great today; it was a great effort by him. In that last game when he ran over that guy on third-and-short to get the first down, you could see the 'eye' he had in the huddle after that. You could tell he felt good about it.

If I am not drafted, I would have to sit down and think whether I want to put in the extra effort to make it on the pro soccer level or go the alternative route and get a normal job.

If he doesn't see all the effort he wants, we'll stop practice at any time and do up-downs. In one of our last practices, we weren't going hard enough. So we ended up doing up-downs for the rest of practice, which was good because it was what we needed to do.

I felt we had a good effort as a team tonight. Our goal when we got the lead late was to keep running our offense and start to take some time off the clock.

I don?t think the effort was a total issue today. We played pretty hard. But it?s one thing to play hard and another to play well and do your job.

Ariel Sharon

I don't see how they can have elections without our help, ... We will make every effort not to help them in their elections.

I am very proud of the younger guys. It took a total team effort tonight.

I am very proud of her effort in the third set.

I am pleased with the effort. Our effort was there. It was a team effort to the end.

E. P. Thompson

I am pleased with my guys' effort today. We had our chances, and we did a good job of keeping their forwards from doing any damage.

E. B. White

I am pleased that we put forth that effort for catastrophic events, ... But you look back at other events that have taken place that have called for some kind of fundraising or support from students and staff. Our staff and students have always stood tall.

I am proud of how the kids have played so hard game after game, but they still have come up on the short end. I hope the kids will be rewarded soon for the effort they've given lately.

Barry Trotz

I feel better about where we're going because of the all-around effort and the game we played. It's the last game before the regular season but we wanted to respond with some good efforts and some good play. And I thought we did.