Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires.

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.

I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.

My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.