This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
~By Sam Brownback ~
Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
~By Leonard Woolf ~
Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.
~By John W. Hinckley, Jr. ~
Much effort, much prosperity.
~By Euripides ~
Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
~By Rex Stout ~
The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.
~By Robert A. Taft ~
I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
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 ~
In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.
~By Archie Shepp ~
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 ~
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 ~
In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
~By Alvin Ailey ~
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
~By William Osler ~
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
~By John Fischer ~
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.
~By Ivor Novello ~
Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
~By Jackie Weaver ~
What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
~By Jack Kingston ~
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
~By George Santayana ~
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
~By Charles Schwab ~
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
~By Plato ~
Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.
~By Stafford Cripps ~
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
~By Ted W. Engstrom ~
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
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 ~
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
~By Chuck Jones ~
Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.
~By Harry Reid ~
The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.
~By Paul D. Boyer ~
And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat!
~By Harry Pollitt ~
I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction.
~By Alvin Williams ~
Strong efforts may be made to deny the place, to silence the authentic, but the spirit of things will break through that silence.
~By John Haynes ~
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
~By Mike Rounds ~
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
~By Frank Moore Colby ~
He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.
~By Eugen Herrigel ~
In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.
~By Paul Martin ~
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.
~By Jim Costa ~
Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
~By John Burns ~
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 ~
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
~By Evan Bayh ~
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
~By George Crabbe ~
In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
~By Gale Norton ~
Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
~By Pat Riley ~
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
~By Jim Rohn ~
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.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
~By Felix Adler ~
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.
~By Paul Nurse ~
I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.
~By Richard Shelby ~
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
~By James Lane Allen ~
If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks.
~By Marc Racicot ~
The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.
~By Doc Hastings ~
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.
~By David Cronenberg ~
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
~By Barney Frank ~
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
~By George Santayana ~
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.
~By Paul Allen ~
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
~By Walt Disney ~
There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.
~By James Longstreet ~
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
~By George Santayana ~
Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
~By Al Goldstein ~
My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.
~By Lois Capps ~
Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.
~By Juan Antonio Samaranch ~
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
~By Erich Fromm ~
It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort.
~By Jo Bonner ~
People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.
~By Mitchell Baker ~
The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.
~By Leland Stanford ~
As the Iraqi people better understand that Saddam Hussein and his regime are history, it is my hope that they will get behind the coalition effort to help them create a democratic government and rebuild their country.
~By Pete Domenici ~
I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
~By Jo Brand ~
I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.
~By Emily Mortimer ~
Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.
~By Stafford Cripps ~
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 ~
The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.
~By Aly Khan ~
In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.
~By Roone Arledge ~
This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.
~By Thomas F. Meagher ~
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 ~
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
~By Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~
Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.
~By Said Musa ~
We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies.
~By Hassanal Bolkiah ~
My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.
~By Meg Ryan ~
We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.
~By Trip Hawkins ~
None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort.
~By Nick Lampson ~
Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
~By Phil Jackson ~
In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.
~By Edward Bennett Williams ~
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
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