Famous Quotes & Sayings

Moliere

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

Milton Friedman

Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. … “And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.

Mike Ditka

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did.

Nathalie Sarraute

Chacun peut e prouver en soi ce double mouvement: de s ir de s'inte grer a' la socie te , besoin de se re aliser par soi-me" me en dehors d'elle. We all have this double impulse within ourselves: the desire to integrate into society, and the need to fulfil ourselves outside of it, through our own efforts.

Nancy Lublin

Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.

Nancy Mitford

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

Ken Salazar

In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.

Kate Bush

Sometimes when I look back on myself on those earlier records, there was so much effort going in, so much trying. With this, I was trying to make it much more laid back.

Ken Venturi

Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.

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.

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.

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.

Kenny Hickey

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

Any time we wrestle someone more than once, we try to improve. It's a great measuring stick to know we improved that much. We're not happy because we didn't win, but we're happy with their effort as a team.

Mario Monti

Server networks lie at the heart of the future of the Web and every effort must be made to prevent their monopolization through illegal practices,

Small-scale aquaculture requires low-cost labor and doesn't require much investment and effort once the ponds have been set up.

Bill Tierney

So disappointing. Not because you lose, but because of the effort the kids put in all week long.

At this point, you should go with the majors. Now is the time to stick with your large, name-brand charities. Someone who did a good job with the tsunami effort is probably prepared to do a good job in New Orleans and Mississippi.

David Reutimann

That's as wide open as I can mash it. All in all a great effort and hopefully we will be as good in the race.

execution and effort was symbolic of a losing football team. ... I think that is the worst we've probably played in three years.

The kids played well. They had a lot of effort and executed well. I'm very pleased with how we played.

The kids fought hard. I was proud of their effort and determination. We just made too many mistakes.