Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John P. Kotter

In a change effort, culture comes last, not first.

John Owen

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

Norman Foster

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

Nina Simone

That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.

Thomas Jefferson

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

Rick Ross

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

The goal of this entire effort has been to use students and parents as a revenue raiser.

Patrick Marleau

The effort was there tonight, definitely. It just goes to show you, even when you have the effort it's hard to win in this league. We didn't get the result we wanted but I think we took a step in the right direction.

Steve Simmons

The effort was there today. It just presented us with something we haven't been able to solve yet.

Steve Spurrier

The effort was there. Obviously, the little things here and there made us a loser,

The effort was there last week, they were just tired. This week we will be ready.

The effort was there. I wasn't disappointed with the effort, the heart the kids had. It's hard to tell the kids we're happy with the loss (but) the kids did all they could tonight for the most part.

The effort was there. It was as good an effort in a loss as you could have. We clawed. We scrapped. But you can't lose on the glass and shoot a low percentage like we did.

The effort was there. It just gets hard at this stage of the season not to get a win out of it.

The effort was there and that just kind of sparked us. Once we got that it was contagious.

The effort wasn't bad. But it's going to have to be a lot better next weekend.

The effort was not there like it should've been. It takes everybody on the whole team playing hard. We're a good team when we give an effort.

The effort was low and spread out and a lot of them didn't fish that long with so few fish around.

The effort was incredible. We took a nice step forward and it really helped our confidence.

Ron Wilson

The effort was incredible. I can't fault it. I feel like we played more than well enough to win, but we didn't. We took a step in the right direction.

The effort was a little lackadaisical. We need to play harder than what we did tonight.

Alonzo Mourning

The effort that we put forth, it's not his fault. He put the guys in that he trusted, that he thought would get the job done.

The effort of the lawsuit and purpose is to obtain any information from the United States government. There is clearly, and we know for a fact, information in its possession, some of which is quite suspicious.

The effort in the third is something I'm proud of.

Lawrence Frank

The effort here tonight was tremendous. We got off to a great start and sustained it.

Ken Hitchcock

The game is on the line and we took two poor penalties in the third period. You can't do those things. It's unnecessary. That's the hockey game. We had tremendous effort by people, but we took two poor penalties.

Larry Wachtel

The fundamentals have undercut any efforts for the market to rally on Iraq news,

Jonathan Keltz

I'm focusing on my efforts behind the camera. I'm doing some producing and directing so that I can make projects for all of the amazing, talented actors and crew that I know.

Laurie Helgoe

Extroverts are more attuned to social rewards, so they are more likely to flash a smile for effect. A notable exception are introverts - like me - whom I call "socially accessible" introverts. We have been trained well to smile and nod, which can place a burden on our processing efforts.