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.

Samuel Fuller

Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.

Wangari Maathai

There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.

Wangari Maathai

When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.

W. H. Auden

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

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.

Keisha Brown

John knows what it takes to win and be a leader. He has the desire to win and he always steps up as a leader. Sometimes in the locker room, I don't need to say what needs to be said because John has already done it for me.

Chris Gordon

J.R. expressed a desire to be a part of something on (The Team) again.

Sigi Schmid

He is the type of player that has a tremendous desire to win. He needs to be an example to our younger players. He needs to be a vocal player, but he can't do any of that until he gets on the field, so first he needs to get healthy.

Roland Thornqvist

There aren't 10 players better than Alexis. She has the deep-down desire to turn pro and, without a doubt, she has the potential to make money.

Gerard Hopkins

I have desired to go / Where springs not fail, / To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail / And a few lilies blow,

Sam Baker

I discussed with Nate our desire for him to remain as the voice of the Eagles. I was disappointed when he respectfully declined.

Robert Collier

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.

Rebecca West

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

Townsend Harris

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

Robert Rodriguez

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

Roger Goodell

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.

Zack Snyder

There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

Ned Vizzini

Time is a person-made concept.

Patricia A. Woertz

Ive always enjoyed seeing how things are made.

Larry Page

Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

Ken Burns

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

Mary McCormack

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

Terry Goodkind

Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.