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.

Robert Shapiro

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

Mary Pierce

Kim has been incredible on hard courts this year.

Michael Adams

Josef Ackermann's personal integrity is not in question. He didn't see the red line that some courts have seen. But it's a squishy concept.

Kim Clijsters

I think I stayed very focused and very patient throughout the whole match, ... Even when I was 4-1 up, I was playing really well at the start. I was moving around, just from side-to-side, opening up the court a lot.

Anthony Kennedy

It involved a constitutional issue of the gravest importance decided 4-3 by a state court on a federal issue that it was our responsibility to take the case, ... Sometimes it is easy, so it seems, to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of our court.

Neal Katyal

It is a foundation of this court to test the lawfulness of military tribunals.

Harry Reid

I think the American people can see through this so clearly. The president should come forward with some middle-of-the-road person, somebody that is going to be a good Supreme Court justice, not somebody that's going to be writing the law from the bench, ... This Week.

Michael Bell

There is no hearing currently set in the federal court for a hearing to review the restraining order.

Steve Goldberg

There is no explanation or excuse for not coming. There are rules of court that should be obeyed and Mr. Knight is making a mockery of it.

Tupac Shakur

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

Sarah Paulson

I am a person who is not mated.

Kirsten Dunst

I'm not a very 'this is planned out' person when I get to set. 'This is how I'm going to do it' - I'm never like that.

Marc Almond

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

Martin Buber

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

Quintilian

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

Phillip Lim

I'm not such a public person.

Paula Poundstone

I'm the only person I know of who's ever been pulled over for attempted speeding.

John Cusack

I was never interested in being an overly public person.