Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathy Griffin

Why would you want to keep the bluebird houses mounted in a place that you now know is unsafe for them? Bluebirds are not ornaments for pictures, they are living things that deserve your best effort if you are going to be a landlord to them. There is no magic spell that will protect those bluebirds--they have to depend on you or they are doomed.

Peter Straub

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Brandon Sanderson

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

Sigmund Freud

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

Seth Godin

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Jeremy Lin

I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

Jacki Weaver

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

Gerald R. Ford

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

Mike Huckabee

I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.

Theo Epstein

had a lot of honest talks in that last week, reflecting on ourselves and the organization and the job, and whether it was right for me and for the team.

Dave Auday

Going into the season, I knew they were going to be the one seed in the Foothills League. I honestly thought we would be the No. 2 team and we proved it today.

Brett Hall

He's been taking input on this from everyone. I honestly don't know what he's going to do.

George Crabbe

What is a church? - Our honest sexton tells, / 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

Norm Coleman

We take very seriously the importance of testifying honestly before this committee,

Maria Sharapova

I think at some point I may be able to dominate, but honesty, I don't think I'm physically there yet and I don't want to go out there and say I am, when I'm really not.

Lord Shaftesbury

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

Tom Wall

He was probably one of the most honest people I've ever run across.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Zosia Mamet

I am a private human.

Walter Gilbert

Here is a human being; it's me!

Os Guinness

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Kate Bernheimer

I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

Nick Hornby

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.