The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.
~By Richard Neal ~
Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.
~By Valerie Jarrett ~
Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.
~By Connie Willis ~
What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.
~By Christina Romer ~
I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.
~By Payne Stewart ~
The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.
~By Herman Kahn ~
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.
~By Mort Walker ~
The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.
~By Dan Castellaneta ~
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.
~By Anna Lindh ~
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
~By Claude Debussy ~
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
~By George Santayana ~
We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.
~By Tom Daschle ~
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.
~By Spencer Bachus ~
What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.
~By Angelina Grimke ~
Most achievers I know are people who have made a strong and deep dedication to pursuing a particular goal. That dedication took a tremendous amount of effort.
~By Donald Johanson ~
I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.
~By Len Wein ~
Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.
~By Dixie Carter ~
But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
~By Paul Berg ~
But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
~By Earl Browder ~
But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
~By Elizabeth Edwards ~
You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.
~By Dick Durbin ~
We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.
~By Steve Spurrier ~
I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.
~By Jerry Lawler ~
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
~By Brian Tracy ~
Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.
~By Jo Ann Emerson ~
In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
~By Bill Kristol ~
As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
~By Michelle Obama ~
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.
~By Jared Diamond ~
Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
~By Bob Lilly ~
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are.
~By Joe Henderson ~
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
~By Chinua Achebe ~
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
~By Anita Desai ~
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
~By Richard Whately ~
I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
~By Bob Richards ~
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
~By James M. Cain ~
Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
~By Al Goldstein ~
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
~By Lewis Thomas ~
Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.
~By Paul Robeson ~
There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.
~By Ajay Devgan ~
All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.
~By William Wells Brown ~
There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.
~By Jim Walsh ~
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.
~By John Abizaid ~
My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.
~By Janet Reno ~
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
~By Harriet Martineau ~
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
~By Eric Hobsbawm ~
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
~By K. Eric Drexler ~
For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.
~By Kim Campbell ~
Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.
~By John Bright ~
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
~By Ben Hecht ~
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research.
~By James Cronin ~
None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort.
~By Nick Lampson ~
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
~By Jim Hightower ~
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
~By Barney Frank ~
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Success is dependent on effort.
~By Sophocles ~
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
~By Erich Fromm ~
We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield an open cell door and a ticket to freedom.
~By Bill Owens ~
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
~By Kate Chopin ~
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
~By Anais Nin ~
As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.
~By David Kay ~
Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.
~By Jerome Isaac Friedman ~
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks.
~By Bulent Ecevit ~
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
~By William Howard Taft ~
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.
~By Steve Spurrier ~
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
~By Allen Ginsberg ~
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.
~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
~By Vinton Cerf ~
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
~By Kenneth Tynan ~
So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
~By Jackie Cooper ~
In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.
~By Edward Bennett Williams ~
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
~By Bernard Levin ~
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
~By Ernest Shackleton ~
My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.
~By Sadaharu Oh ~
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
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