Effort

Famous quotes containing the word effort:

    My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    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.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)