Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Reno

We are trying to identify employers that might be [hiring illegal aliens] and to take effective action against them. We're trying to make sure that employers that want to cooperate have a system whereby they can verify the employment status of a person that they are seeking to hire. It is part of a comprehensive initiative in which we look both at the border, at the workplace, at criminal aliens, in an attempt to have a comprehensive effort aimed at stopping illegal immigration while at the same time promoting legal immigration according to principles of due process.

Janet Reno

There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts.

Janet Reno

This is a serious problem of major concern, and we have got to approach it in a way that is consistent with this nation's tradition as a nation of immigrants, focusing on legal immigration, supporting that in the right way and doing everything possible consistent with the Constitution to control illegal immigration, and we will continue in those efforts.

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've relied on our effort level and our poise and we didn't have either one tonight. Our effort level in the first half was a big key. We did not have great effort and we needed to have great effort.

Calvin Coolidge

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

Bryant H. McGill

Through meditation and gentle cooperation, the body will heal itself with little or no effort.

Catherine Malandrino

Macrame is effortless.

Catherine O'Hara

I wouldn't mind spending a little more time and effort and money on good skin care. And I'm sure they'll come out with, as they are doing, with more and more treatments that are noninvasive and healthy ways to keep your face looking as good as it can.

Al Goldstein

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

Al Gore

The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.

Charles Kingsley

I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.

Charles Babbage

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

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.

Edward Said

I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other.

Robert Moore

We have inherited a fragmented kind of system. No one has made a concerted effort to make this whole thing seamless.

Barbara Jordan

When do any of us ever do enough?

We're looking not just at a coastal event, but a second (or) third event that will occur over the next few days. So it will be an enormous effort on our part.

This really has very little to do with the hurricanes or relief efforts or even refiners. This is deregulation pure and simple,

This win was really big. This was huge. The girls started the game with a high intensity level and really put in a lot of effort in this game.

Benjamin Graham

We urge the beginner in security buying not to waste his efforts and his money in trying to beat the market. Let him study security values and initially test out his judgment on price versus value with the smallest possible sums.

James Weldon Johnson

Make yourself as happy as possible, and try to make those happy whose lives come in touch with yours. But to attempt to right the wrongs and cease the sufferings of the world in general is a waste of effort.

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

We really just want to focus our efforts on getting our hospital in Plainfield.

We really had a strong team effort. The effort was great the entire time. ... We fixed a lot of things today.

We're at a quickness disadvantage, so it makes it look like an effort thing when it truly is a quickness thing. On defense, we do maybe one thing, 1 1/2 things, but we can't help and recover and then guard the ball. They went by us the whole night.

We're a rodeo association, not a bull-riding association. Our efforts should be focused on making our rodeos better.

We didn't take the game for granted, but I don't think our effort was like it's been.

Mike Fisher

We have really tried over the years to minimize the impact that this property has on the community. No matter, those efforts are insufficient because of this twisted interest some folks have. I want to get rid of it and hurt as few people in the process as I can and just be done with it.

There is a lot of focus on counter-drug efforts on the part of Rene Preval.

We use our hands and our feet and our forearms and our elbows and knees and actually the weight of the whole body. There are parts of it that are a cooperative ... effort where it actually is two people, the practitioner and the receiver, in a pose together.

Richard G. Scott

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.