Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Gardener

It has always been my ambition to win a major outdoor title and that will be the plan at the Commonwealths.

Richard Rorty

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

Werner Herzog

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

William Congreve

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

Tory Burch

Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.

Tory Burch

There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

Roger Ebert

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

William Faulkner

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

Anton LaVey

Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.

Wallace Stevens

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

William Cowper

But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.

Roseanne Barr

Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal' back in Palestinian.

Zhuangzi

Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.

William Gurnall

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

William Butler Yeats

Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

Wilkie Collins

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

Walter Scott

Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.

Cedric Richmond

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.

Emilio Zebadua

The story of this storm is not over yet.

Joe Farmer

Tune in to the storm in the morning.

Thomas Fuller

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

Kathleen Blanco

We will weather this storm as we have weathered Katrina.

Alfred Marshall

The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.

Tomas Transtromer

Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.

Vernon Howard

The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.

Tobias Smollett

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.