Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Virgo

The solution is to limit public sector ambition to that which can be reliably delivered given the human beings available and rebuild the available UK skills base, including user management and information systems - because technology is rarely the problem.

Rob Lowe

Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don't consider ambition to be a bad one. It's served me very well in my life. Very well.

Bryant H. McGill

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Alain de Botton

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

Charles Babbage

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

Edmund Burke

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

Jon Runyan

When I decided to run for Congress, I saw it as an opportunity to serve the South Jersey community that had become my home after signing to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. I didn't choose public service out of political ambition or a desire for power, and never once thought of making a career of it.

Ben Jonson

Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.

Stuart Pearce

We had a few good runs with Forest. It was a burning ambition of mine to be the captain who said to Brian Clough 'here is the FA Cup'. Unfortunately, we didn't quite manage it.

Vedran Vukusic

This is probably the toughest loss we've had all year.

Van Chancellor

This is one of the most disappointing losses I've ever been in.

Brett Favre

You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.

Augustus

He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it.

Jane Fonda

Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o'clock or seven o'clock or whatever.

Jared Diamond

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

Dan Ariely

Who would you trust right now? Which bank would you trust? Which investment would you trust? Do you really want to put your money; do you want to suffer more of these losses that we just had? You know, these volatility that we see is just unexplainable by any rational standards. Nobody has any clue about how to explain this, and nobody wants to experience that. So, we hold more money back, we don't necessarily want to invest in the market and by default, people are saving more.

Brian Weiss

More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress

Bobby Baldwin

The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

Jane Jacobs

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

Jamie Dimon

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.