Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Virgo

The solution is to limit public sector ambition to that which can be reliably delivered given the human beings available and rebuild the available UK skills base, including user management and information systems - because technology is rarely the problem.

Rob Lowe

Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don't consider ambition to be a bad one. It's served me very well in my life. Very well.

Bryant H. McGill

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Alain de Botton

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

Charles Babbage

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

Edmund Burke

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

Jon Runyan

When I decided to run for Congress, I saw it as an opportunity to serve the South Jersey community that had become my home after signing to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. I didn't choose public service out of political ambition or a desire for power, and never once thought of making a career of it.

Ben Jonson

Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.

Stuart Pearce

We had a few good runs with Forest. It was a burning ambition of mine to be the captain who said to Brian Clough 'here is the FA Cup'. Unfortunately, we didn't quite manage it.

Brandon Sanderson

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

Augustus

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Brad Pitt

You dont know someone until you know what they want.

Brad Delson

In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500.

Jamie Foxx

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

Cameron Diaz

I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.

Busy Philipps

Nobody wants to see a bejeweled pregnant lady from top to bottom.

Alain de Botton

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Jane Austen

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Anton LaVey

Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

Joey Skaggs

You go to school. You stay out of trouble. You get a job. You get married. You have a family. You pay taxes. You pray to the right god. You get old (if you're lucky). And you die.

Scott Hartnell

We were paying the price but the puck wasn't going in for us. (Auld) played well.

Kelley Cradduck

We understand some don't do it intentionally, they're just not paying attention. But in the end, they end up getting stuck in the intersection.

Donald Trump

The best investments you ever make are investments in yourself - and your education. Those investments always pay big dividends.

Don Hewitt

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

Dick Gregory

You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.