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.

Tim Gunn

Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.

Thucydides

Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition.

Thomas Merton

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Source Unknown

To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small.

Friedrich Hegel

To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.

Phil Boyce

Warner has free rein. It's a policy I've only second-guessed one or two times.

Don Evans

We are a nation of free men and free traders. Now is no time for small plans or shrinking ambitions,

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

David Miliband

Al Qaeda has no place in Pakistan. It's a threat to Pakistan. And there should be a convergence of interests between the Pakistani state and the West on security issues, but also on wider economic and social issues.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Tia Carrere

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Stan Getz

I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Runners are poor walkers.

Bill Nygren

I don't think it has anything personally to do with Bob.

Julie Chen

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

Louis Auchincloss

Your literary style reflects your personality.

Jo Coudert

It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.

Edward Bach

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Aristophanes

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Confucius

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.