Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erin Morgenstern

We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

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.

Tom Ridge

For the first time ever, this international effort will establish one world standard for ship and port security,

Iris Murdoch

Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

Greg Kinnear

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

Paul Bowles

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

Marshall McLuhan

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

Maria Schell

I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them.

Paul Allen

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.

Paul Auster

Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

There is sexism -- I'm not denying its existence. But I'm saying that I will deny its effort against me. I just pay it no nevermind and say, 'Get out of my way.'

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.

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.

Noam Chomsky

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

Noam Chomsky

Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.

Noam Chomsky

Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank you.' What's important is not to focus all your efforts on the oppression, but to continue the constructive work.

John Ashcroft

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

George Henry Lewes

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

Haile Selassie

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

Greg Peterson

It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit.

Moliere

Time has nothing to do with the matter.

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.