Effort Quotes - Page 127

The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.

It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

I never thought to look at the New York Times one, even though I knew people were pissed off. I've seen YouTube videos from people who are pissed off at me about that and that takes a lot of effort to go find.

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

I always remind people why The Oscars got started in 1928: It was an effort by the studios to suppress the unions. They started the Academy because all the screenwriters and directors and actors were unionizing, and they thought, "We'll have something that resembles a union, but that's completely controlled by the moneyed interests in Hollywood." That's what it's been all these years. It's something that reinforces Hollywood's image of itself. The Best Picture one year was Gandhi. Nobody watched Gandhi, but that's the kind of picture that always wins.

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not.

We all have an aggressive dedication to the narrative arts - comics, film, electronic gaming, and more. We spend much of our time and effort exploring those forms and have an enormous investment in the arts. We're all part of the same brotherhood as far as I'm concerned.

Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.

Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq.

I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as a sports fan, you only see the end result.

I doubt very greatly, however, that you'll kick my ass. But me and my ass will enjoy your efforts.

Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

Its going to require a global effort to reduce greenhouse gases and hopefully derail some of the adverse impacts that we are experiencing today and the devastating impacts that we are going to experience in the future as a result of global warming.

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.

A lot of my effort is to get people to talk about gender in a new way and to see that sexism and gender issues are so ingrained in us.