Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Macha

Great effort tonight by Halsey. He pitched his game and we had some big hits.

For the last two-and-a-half years we have made every effort to provide 24/7 service, but we have leaned that we are not as young as we used to be and the lack of sleep is much more important than it used to be.

For the most part, we've played pretty well. We've been in most every game. Tonight, for some reason, the effort was not there and it showed.

Tom Ridge

For the first time ever, this international effort will establish one world standard for ship and port security,

Iris Murdoch

Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

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?

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.

I don't see a reason they would hold back on it. Every effort is going to be made to do that.

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.

Brian Jones

I don't think this is something that's going to derail the efforts underway at this point.

I don't think we can say that for sure. Maybe the superhuman effort I had to come up with to get back took away something extra I might have had left in my tank at the end.

I couldn't be more proud of the effort of our kids tonight. We were down eight with three minutes to go.

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.

Gerhard Richter

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.

Harville Hendrix

The depth of our love can be measured by our efforts. We demonstrate our love when we take that extra step...

Iyanla Vanzant

Learning to trust yourself and what you know takes time and work. You cannot expect to eradicate a lifetime of misguided information overnight. You must make a continuous, conscious effort to get on good terms with you.

Bruce Bochy

Chan Ho was strong throughout the game. That was a great effort by him.

Paul Allen

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

Paul Auster

Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

There is sexism -- I'm not denying its existence. But I'm saying that I will deny its effort against me. I just pay it no nevermind and say, 'Get out of my way.'