Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Donaldson

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

Raymond Loewy

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

Carrie Fisher

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

Jenny Offill

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

Louise J. Kaplan

For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.

Dorothy Dix

(A girl's) chief ambition then, as now, was to get married and have a home and children.

Henry Adams

If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency; a faith warmer than that of reasoning; a love purer than that of the self; he has been slow to express it; still slower to urge it.

John Adams

A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.

John Adams

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

Barry Marshall

In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

Victor LaValle

Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

L.K. Advani

Swami Vivekanand, during his last days, had expressed the need for a man-making machinery in India. The RSS formed by Dr Hegdewar in 1925, did the same work Vivekanand aspired for - making men,

Kevin Collins

John was a role model for me who led to a lot of the reasons why I continued running after high school and college. He was the guy who most of the (local) teens aspired to be like as a runner.

Jessica Bird

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

Rob Enderle

IE has been frozen for a number of years largely at the request of large corporations that didn't want to upgrade and impact the stability of their systems. The result was that new browsers were able to spring up and begin taking market share.

Steve Maviglio

On any other expenditure done by the state, prevailing wage is the law. If you begin to chip away here, it would start undermining the wages that are paid to California workers.

Ken Goldstein

begin to make way for a better economy this fall.

Richard Hunter

I think the days of ups and downs are behind us. I think people are beginning to realize that the growth here is being sustained. Obviously our goal is to be a profitable company and return those benefits to shareholders. That's why I'm here.

Tom Daschle

I acknowledged that concern, and it is for that reason that the Intelligence Committee is going to begin this effort, trying to limit the scope and the overall review of what happened,

Kate Ford

I am disappointed that some folks who clearly are not strong citizens to begin with took this opportunity to make this statement, ... I was chagrined that there were obvious mothers and children in the crowd with them. Several intimated that they had guns.

Sharon Allen

I knew at the beginning of the game we weren't ready, then they made us play at a higher level and we weren't ready again.

Cedric Garland

A glass of milk, for example, has only 100 international units. Other foods, such as orange juice, yogurt and cheese, are now beginning to be fortified, but you have to work fairly hard to reach 1,000 IU a day.

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Mike Cooley

You know I have not seen people doing back flips about the fact that he's mountain biking. But I think we'll see a few more people getting into it. I know the governor has turned into quite a cyclist, and I think there are other people out there that will probably sample it now that the president has given it a go.

Keith Cooper

We couldn't get over the hump, but I liked the fact that after they got up 25, we battled back.

Mike Holt

He's never complained, and the fact he's never complained and said anything negative through this whole ordeal is inspiring.

Derek Smith

I don't like the fact that someone is in there playing dominoes with their friends while we're out there practicing. I didn't like the fact that they're in there sleeping on the rehab table while we're out there practicing, and then they just come out Friday because they think they're that good and they can come out and play.

John Bisio

I do not know for a fact that any plans have been made.

Michael Walsh

I do have some reason for optimism this year. The fact we've had a relatively mild spring bodes well for the season.

Gil Reyes

He was ready for the battle, but I think we'd be kidding ourselves if we totally ignored the fact that it's a 35-year-old body.

Billy Blanks

When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.

Bobby Darin

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

Don DeLillo

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

Amber Valletta

I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.

Chuck Palahniuk

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Chuck Palahniuk

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

Dashiell Hammett

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

Andy Murray

You can be careful as far as you can, but you never know when you're going to fall over and break your ankle. It's like when you drive a car, you don't think about crashing, do you?

Ambrose Bierce

INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.

Tommy Lasorda

You wait till you see that Dominican team. You wait till you see Puerto Rico. You wait till you see Venezuela. . . . Matsui is a great player. The Japanese team needs him.

Ken Johnson

You really hope that he's OK. He's a great player and you never want to see a player get hurt like that.

Mike Dunne

You're a great neighbor and we all know what you're doing, and we know you're going to do this with care,

Tino Martinez

We all think it shouldn't be, because he's done such a great job here.

Eric Brock

Every guy here has great talent. Guys are just sitting around waiting for their chance. When the opportunity comes a lot of guys are ready to step in and prove themselves on a national level.

Jonathan Freeman

As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time.

John Lasseter

At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.

Jon Kyl

At 47 percent, the (estate) tax today is a great inhibitor to growth, ... and is also a business-ending event.

Seth

As I get older and I see all my friends starting to have children, I see them have different reactions to the material that was probably not of great interest to them when they were younger, because they're re-experiencing it through their kids.