Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Rotblat

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

Mitch Daniels

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

Marilyn Ferguson

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Mikhail Bakunin

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Miuccia Prada

Daring to wear something different takes effort.

Mitt Romney

This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.

Priyanka Chopra

I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.

Portia de Rossi

Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular.

Noam Chomsky

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

Noam Chomsky

Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.

Noam Chomsky

Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank you.' What's important is not to focus all your efforts on the oppression, but to continue the constructive work.

John Ashcroft

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort

Joe Theismann

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.

Kenny Hickey

It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene.

It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.

Louis Kronenberger

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

Michael Crichton

It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.

Mark Twain

I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.

Mark Millar

The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.

Mario Testino

I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.

Matt Drudge

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

Patanjali

Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere.

Paul Nurse

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

Paul Bowles

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

Marshall McLuhan

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

Maria Schell

I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them.

Michael O'Brien

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

Christine Pelosi

After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

Gilbert Highet

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Fran Lebowitz

I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.

George Santayana

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.