#effort

Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#break #could #disease #effort #everyone

You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play. ↗

— Mike Lee

#basis #business #capital #cause #economy

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#constitutes #earnest #effort #forward #man

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#acquaintance #back #done #effort #embarrassment

Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#big #could #cups #effort #every

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#become #conservatism #effort #exalt #fanatics

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#authority #brings #consoling #economy #effort

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass. ↗

— Eric Liu

#country #course #create #efforts #history

There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended. ↗

— James Longstreet

#blows #broken #could #effort #failed

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes". ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#because #efforts #fail #i #i am