Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Babbage

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

Ian Campbell

The title has been our ambition since day one and now we have to go out and clinch it. Then I will celebrate properly.

Celso Amorim

We will not lower the level of ambition of the round. If necessary we may lower the level of expectation for Hong Kong,

Andrew Miller

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

E. Stanley Jones

We grow small trying to be great.

E. O. Wilson

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of knowledge, alluding to Icarus of the Greek myth.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

E. F. Schumacher

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

Thomas Otway

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Tyler Haynes

Someone's season is going to be finished -- nobody wants that.

Kathleen McCarthy

The Rockland runner is very good and Kate stayed with her the whole race. Kate is so consistent. I can always rely on her to finish strong.

Ellis Hobbs

The season is not over. This is Week 17 and we want to finish strong. I can rest later. They pay me to play.

Louis MacNeice

I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.

John Gibbons

We want to hang in there and see what develops. We want to finish well and say we had a good year. You play until you're eliminated.

Landon Donovan

Crucial, ... You don't want to worry about other results, you don't want to worry about getting a result in the sixth game. If you can finish it ... you finish it.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We finished this one. We made it hard though. I told the guys that they are kind of hard on their coaches.

John Kaleo

I started the game and played about halfway through the game. To get hurt in the 3rd quarter and watch in the 4th quarter was tough, ... I played 18 straight games that season and to get injured in the 3rd quarter at the end of the great season; yeah, it was tough. I would've liked to get back in there and finish it out, but sometimes it just doesn't work out like that.

Rafael Nadal

Is more for precaution. You don't know tomorrow what's happen, no? But now I am happy because I don't feel too much pain. But I can finish the match, so that's a good sign.

John Moody

What we try to do is not shut out any points of view.

Art Hogan

We were up more than 100 points yesterday, so you're seeing a reaction to that today,

Kobe Bryant

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board, which is very popular with the people.

Tramain Hall

All of a sudden they took the points off the board, ... It was like, 'Are you serious?'

Ike Taylor

They put up a lot of points and they put up a lot of yards, ... We know they're going to be on the attack.

W. S. Gilbert

It's a tight race in the WCHA and we know these points are so important.

Bob Fredericks

It wasn't rocket science. We let up 18 points in the first quarter and three in the second. That's the quarter where we won the ballgame.

Joe James

It was a solid team effort. We had 62 points off assists, 35 rebounds and steals.

Andy Reid

We feel that we have the quality to get the three points and we want to win the group.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Angelo Scola

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

T. S. Eliot

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Thurgood Marshall

What is the quality of your intent?

Thurgood Marshall

What is the quality of your intent? Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through.

Thorstein Veblen

There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for ill, continues to be watched by the international community, in particular by organizations concerned with the advancement of the rule of law and respect for human dignity.

Thomas Mann

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

Thomas Carlyle

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Pete Carroll

It took all day long to get this win, ... It took every second.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Raymond Bonner

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

Jeremy Clayton

We didn't take a lot of 3-pointers. We took it to the hole.

Andrew Griffin

We had everything it took this year to get over the hump. We just didn't execute.