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Little Effort Quotes

Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

I could die today, if I wished, merely by making a little effort, if I could wish, if I could make an effort. But it is just as well to let myself die, quietly, without rushing things. Something must have changed. I will not weigh upon the balance any more, one way or the other.
- Samuel Beckett

The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.
- D A Carson

She remembered lying in the crevasse, buried by snow. She thought of that perfect silence. Also now, like then, no one knew where she was. This time too, no one would come. But she no longer expected them to.
She smiled at the clear sky. With a little effort, she could get up by herself.
- Paolo Giordano

With a little effort, she could get up by herself
- Paolo Giordano

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.
- Terry Goodkind

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.
- Gordon B Hinckley

If you've seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don't think anyone would have expected that going in front of the camera was something that I was going to do. I can't believe how little effort my parents put into making me seem like an appealing little girl.
- Mindy Kaling

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.
- Mother Maribel

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.
- Richard K Morgan

It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry," said Angus Lordie. "In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find.
- Alexander Mccall Smith

Alex, seated on her left, was one of those men who acted like hed been issued a certain number of words at birth and didnt want to run out. It took a little effort to get him talking,
- Eileen Wilks

What whites have rarely had to think aboutbecause being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little effort at leastis that maybe the point is not victory, however much we all wish to see justice attained and injustice routed. Maybe our redemption comes from the struggle itself. Maybe it is in the effort, the striving for equality and freedom that we become human.
- Tim Wise

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