Famous quotes containing the words losing and/or effort:
“Losing face is as important to people as losing bark is to a tree.”
—Chinese proverb.
“But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man’s bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)