Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dos Passos

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.

Lawrence Kohlberg

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.

Karl Popper

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

Joseph Pilates

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

Joseph Prince

One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.

Jules Renard

I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.

Jules Renard

Fame is a constant effort

Juan Manuel Santos

Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.

Judith Viorst

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

Joshua Ferris

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

Joseph Haydn

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

Kate Smith

It has been said that genius is only the power of making continuous effort. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it. We are told that there is no failure, except in no longer trying - no defeat, except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own weakness of purpose.

Leila Josefowicz

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.

Linus Pauling

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Leo Tolstoy

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

Logan Lerman

You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

Lou Holtz

It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

Freya Stark

Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.

Francois Hollande

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

Gustave Flaubert

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Gordon Smith

As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.

John Major

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

John Lydon

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

John Locke

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

John Legend

I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.

John Lancaster Spalding

Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.

Emily Mortimer

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

Elliott Abrams

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

Elliott Abrams

The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized.