Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Reid

This is a start. We don't know where this will go. We just want to make a good-faith effort to give this a try.

Mark Cuban

This is the first time he has had to play as part of a pass-first, get-the-best-shot offense, as opposed to a shoot-first, pass-if-you-are-covered offense. Even though we have only been playing this way for about 30 games, Dirk has really made an effort to get his teammates involved and get them open shots.

Sam Nunn

This is part of prudent efforts to protect our interests in the Gulf,

Matthew Dowd

This is part of our efforts to highlight what has happened over the last two years. This is sort of the start of that dialogue.

This is part of her effort to get this relationship back where it should be. I think we're just about there.

This is part and parcel of an effort on Microsoft's part to make the launch of Vista really interesting.

The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws

This game was our season in a nutshell. Ups and downs, ups and downs. It's another down for us, but my guys played hard. The effort was there. If you set your goals high, you have to be ready for disappointment.

This could become one of the favorite stops for the players after just one year. They understood how much effort we made to make them feel welcome.

This effort was always about the kids (and) for the kids. Residents ... were willing to do whatever it took to get this passed.

This effort is awesome, because there are a lot of families in need.

Tom Ford

This effort and this schedule will help rebuild Louisiana and the Gulf South,

Kevin Rudd

That's where Australia's efforts should lie at the moment ? through the UN process and through our own bilateral pressure on the Iranian Government.

that they're supporting efforts that have a long-standing positive influence on the state.

John Tortorella

That's not saying he doesn't have the ability, but he gets everything out of himself every night. And when he's not going, it's not working for him, you know the effort is going to be there.

That's not really the effort I was looking for today. This group's been able to get up for some big games, but today they just didn't get up for it.

A lack of effort. That's the key, lack of effort at the end of the game. We need to stick with that energy the whole game.

You've got to respect his effort and the way he played tonight. He's become a great player.

You're not going to win a lot of games scoring seven goals, but we played pretty good. That effort is good enough to win on most nights. But give Rochester their due. They executed a little better than we did.

You need to put effort into determining the return, which is largely linked to the risk of the borrower.

You read a lot about the effort and you don't hear a lot about the children.

You put so many hours and hours for year after year and you put all your effort and energy into one of these things. And then to see it finally come to this ... it feels good. You don't like to lose, so it really does feel good.

Barbara Jordan

When do any of us ever do enough?

The protection of Napa Ranch is a big step in our effort to protect the region's natural treasures and its way of life before it's too late.

We've struggled the last half of the season off and on. I was pleased with our effort and our execution, for the most part.

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Janet Guthrie

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

bell hooks

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

Daniel Goleman

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

Blaise Pascal

Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.

Taufik Hidayat

Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

Edmund Burke

I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

We really just weren't playing with a sense of urgency. It was not a good effort on our part.