I didn't need to be speaker because I needed a fancy title or a big office. I wanted to be speaker so I could lead an effort to deal with the serious issues that are facing our country.
John Boehner
EffortCountrySeriousOfficeNeed
It took me a while to get used to moving and jumping in the sand. It takes a lot more effort in the sand.
Brooke Sweat
EffortMeMovingSandMoreJumping
I find it an effort to keep up appearances.
Dusty Springfield
EffortFindUpAppearancesKeep
I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
Lady Gaga
LifeDreamsArtDayI AmEffort
Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt.
Roscoe Conkling
EffortNeverWithoutWhoseCandidate
That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.
Linus Torvalds
PositiveGoodEffortFeedbackYou
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
MyselfEffortStepMeWindowSeeing
Part of what I do, after feeling invisible for a long time, is make an effort not to be invisible any more.
John Grant
TimeEffortLongFeelingLong Time
What exactly is trade facilitation? In a nutshell, it is an effort to enable global trade by reducing red tape and streamline customs. In even simpler words: making it easier for companies to trade across borders.
Arancha Gonzalez
WordsRedEffortBordersTradeEven
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.
David Ives
EffortPeopleThinkProcessPlay
So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
Jackie Cooper
BusinessMoneyEffortPeopleFeel
When Americans support using our military abroad, they want to see a clear plan. They want to know what they need to do and when - and policymakers want to know that there's broad public support for the effort.
Ron DeSantis
EffortSupportPlanKnowWantNeed
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Lydia M. Child
YourselfEffortPeopleBattleYou
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
EffortSucceedPoliticalHelpTrying
The best companies with the strongest credit ratings borrow like the United States: on a non-prioritized basis. This means that in the event of a default, all of their debts are of equal priority because lenders and creditors believe default is highly unlikely. And they spend considerable effort maintaining this status.
John Delaney
BestEffortBelieveCreditEqual
The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.
Armstrong Williams
EffortWorldLongSecuritySeriously
The average billboard has no more than eight words. It takes a lot of effort to make a beer, rice, or shampoo seem special in eight words.
David Droga
WordsEffortBeerSpecialMoreRice
Writing, for me at least, takes a lot of concentrated work and effort. It takes dedication and the willingness to do the work even when that feeling of inspiration isn't there at all.
Karl Iagnemma
WorkDedicationEffortMeWriting
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Russell Hoban
HistoryEffortSpeakLanguageHuman
While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable.
Lewis Howes
FailureEffortTryingSometimes
What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens want to make the effort to straighten out the country, and at the same time they want it to be just and equitable.
Francois Hollande
TodayTimeJusticeI AmEffortWant
I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it.
John Caudwell
LifeEffortPeopleFeelOutBreak
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
Anne Sullivan
EffortPeopleThinkTrainYoung
Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
David Bowie
MusicGodEffortWritingInformation
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