#effort

And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#also #assert #commitments #declared #effort

Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#aim #aimed #apartheid #believe #cause

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned. ↗

— Henry Adams

#calling #divinity #effort #every #every man

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#attention #because #effort #expended #fulfill

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#difficult #effort #great #great art #never

Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible. ↗

— Harry Reid

#country #dangerous #defeat #effort #help

What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking. ↗

— Christina Romer

#compensation #efforts #financial #focused #going

This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#die #effort #global #going #laden

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#concluded #construct #effort #first #honest

When a pebble is thrown into a lake, everything, down to the furthermost depths, moves with it. ... And if, afterwards, everything seems as it was, the level of the lake has none the less been raised by imperceptible, incalculable degree. The old order has been overthrown -- by a pebble. ↗

— Théophile Thoré

#effort #revolution #change