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Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Quotations regarding 'Effort'

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To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
Phillips Brooks, American Clergyman (1835-  )
Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.
Avery Brooks, American Actor (1948-  )
This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
Sam Brownback, American Politician (1956-  )
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.
Jerome Bruner, American Psychologist (1915-  )
This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.
Bernhard von Bulow, German Statesman (1849-1929)
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
Charlotte Bunch, American Activist (1944-  )
Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
John Burns, English Activist (1858-1943)
People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.
Jenna Bush, American Celebrity (1981-  )
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Samuel Butler, British Poet (1835-1902)
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
James M. Cain, American Novelist (1892-1977)
He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
Cab Calloway, American Musician (1907-1994)
When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology.
John Cameron, -
Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
Naomi Campbell, British Model (1970-  )
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
Elias Canetti, Swiss Author (1905-1994)
I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.
Max Cannon, American Artist
My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.
Lois Capps, American Politician (1938-  )
I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.
Vanessa Carlton, American Musician (1980-  )
I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
Robert Caro, American Writer (1935-  )
Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.
Thomas Carper, American Economist (1947-  )
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel, French Scientist (1873-1944)
 
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