Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mark Richards

There was effort all night. It was nice to be in a game where you didn't have to score four or five goals to stay in the game for once.

There were times we tried to make a run. But we didn't have the kind of enthusiasm and effort we needed.

There were times tonight when this team could have folded its tent. We're not as good as we think we are. I told them at halftime that it was gut-check time, that they needed to show what this team was all about. They finally stepped up and made big plays when they needed to. I was very pleased with their enthusiasm and effort at the end.

There were some excellent individual efforts on our team. Overall it was a really good team effort. Everybody had something they contributed, whether it was passing, rebounding or shooting. Mackenzie (Doty) led our offense. It was a team effort.

This is the pay day for the work and the organization all the effort - the struggles to get to this point. This is why we do it. It makes you feel like you have contributed to something magnificent, something outside yourself. That you've helped a family have an opportunity of a lifetime and how many times can you say that?

This is the meeting in which the relationship between the two will be defined, in which any understandings that they will reach on the future of their joint efforts in the peace process will be determined.

This is the kind of thing we need to do. I don't have a big scoreboard in my office, depicting which groups had taken cuts. I think you can say the whole family is participating in the effort to turn GM around.

This is unbelievable. Tonight was just a great team effort from top to bottom. We are just glad to be going back to the Frozen Four.

This is totally unacceptable. This is going to have to be fixed, and right now. It's pretty completely compromised, so there is going to have to be a significant construction effort to finish it and make it right.

Bill Richardson

This is the wrong resolution at the wrong time, ... It will undermine our efforts to get the peace process back on track and hurt everyone's interests, including those it is most intended to help.

Jerry Sloan

They pretty much manhandled us all the way around. We didn't have much of any kind of effort to stop them.

They really make an effort at outreach. I think that's an indication of how they're going to be involved in the whole community.

They're hot markets, but sometime you need to put your efforts where they're most likely to have success.

Sergei Fedorov

As far as offense, it worked out for us really, really well. It was good to see some individual effort from the guys who scored some goals especially the last one.

Dawn Staley

They played harder, they gave more effort for 40 minutes and they won. We just didn't have it today. We had our moments, but we didn't have it for 40 minutes.

They (oil companies) have become financial engineers rather than petroleum engineers. I'd like to see them show a little more effort in the development side internally than they have lately.

They give every ounce of effort to be out there and play. It's a world where they don't feel ostracized.

They forsake the Fear of the True Guru, and because of their stubborn mindedness, their efforts do not succeed.

The year kicks off with the efforts on Jazz.

Michael W. Smith

You can't make an investment like this in a vacuum and think it's going to have its own gravity. Gravity comes with great mass. This is one piece of an effort to strengthen a whole region, because strong regions have strong cores.

Gilbert Highet

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Let us all try to stand a little taller, rise a little higher, be a little better. Make the extra effort. You will be happier.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Do not let fear overcome your efforts.

Henry David Thoreau

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

Iyanla Vanzant

Learning to trust yourself and what you know takes time and work. You cannot expect to eradicate a lifetime of misguided information overnight. You must make a continuous, conscious effort to get on good terms with you.

Eugene Ionesco

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.