Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

Charles Caleb Colton

The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale.

Alan Hansen

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.

Chogyam Trungpa

There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man

Edward Gibbon

The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of order, and the desire of impunity.

Edward Gibbon

The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his feet; and he heard himself saluted Emperor by the unanimous voice of the senate and people. But the day of his inauguration was the last day of his happiness.

David Hume

Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.

Alan Bennett

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

Al Ries

It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.

Akio Morita

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

Akio Morita

The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

Akio Morita

The public does not know what is possible. We do.

George Foster

We want the players to have a framework to evaluate business opportunities put in front of them. The sporting theme (inspires) much more passion for a lot of people, but a lot of sporting ideas go bankrupt, so passion is not enough. You've got to have revenues come through the door and you've got to contain your cost.

Richard Williams

We want them to have a real-world experience, which means working with people from other schools and cultures, which gives them an experience of diversity. Some students never would have considered a career in international business and exportation without this kind of exposure.

Mike Clasper

We want to streamline the management and admin staff of the business and get our managers closer to the business to deliver that better leadership and get the right people in the right jobs.

Ido Hartuv

We want to see who in the group supports his (Robertson's) statements. Those who support the statements cannot do business with us. Those that publicly support Ariel Sharon's recovery ... are welcome to do business with us.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.

Charles Dickens

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.... Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.

Ed Begley, Jr.

It's people wanting to do something about global climate change. People fed up with the high price of gas. People tired of breathing dirty air. In Houston, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and other cities. It's going to be a critical mass of people experiencing something.

David Bromstad

As a designer and someone that likes getting my hands dirty, it's hard. It's a competition. I can't give too much away. One thing I could do was offer encouraging words.

Charles Dudley Warner

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

Chanakya

He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be the greatest personality - will lose the favour of Lakshmi.

Charlaine Harris

But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide. "Don't you talk dirty," I told him. "I won't listen to that.

Bob Saget

I have a feeling I'm going to wake up one day and say 'I can't do dirty stuff anymore, I want to go all clean.' I'll do clean stuff too, I like to entertain people. Then they egged me on; we shot it at The Laugh Factory.

Bob Saget

I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.

Dwane Casey

We always hold out hope. Mathematically we're still in it. Every time we walk out on the floor, we're playing for something and we're playing for improvement.

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Kevin Towers

We're not going to rush him. We're not going to hold him back, either. But I'd like to see him get more innings at the professional level.

Ertharin Cousin

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

James Blake

Wow ... that would be something. I?d think we?d need to hold a big party at Fairfield High. It would be huge.

Mark Rodgers

We're still sitting tight to see how this is going to break. We're kind of in a holding pattern.

David Briggs

We're still in that pattern. Everyone is on hold and waiting for the next (quarterly results) pre-announcement season in September.

Anne Bacon

We're still holding out hope and praying for their release.

Alan Rickman

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

Dennis Morgigno

We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.

David Hockney

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

David Brin

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

Ben Whishaw

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

Beau Bridges

On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.

Denzel Washington

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

Deepa Mehta

The most interesting part of IIFA is that I get to meet filmmakers from India. I just attended a symposium on Satyajit Ray with Rituparno Ghosh and others. It was just so satisfying

Amanda Tate

We are seeing a lot of interest in the accessories.

Charles Dickens

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

Charles Dickens

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Charles Dickens

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Charles Dickens

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

Charles Dickens

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Charles Dickens

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

Charles Caleb Colton

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Nerlens Noel

My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Garth Jowett

Woodruff is a public personality with wide public recognition. He's a national story.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

Charles Dickens

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.

Charles Spurgeon

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

Alanis Morissette

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

Alan J. Pakula

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

Alan Jay Lerner

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

Al Sharpton

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

Al Pacino

A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.

Akshay Kumar

It's the best thing if your work is your passion in life. It makes me feel like I'm always on break.

Chris Colfer

From this day on, I refuse to let anyone bring me to a point where I can't take a horrible situation and spin it into something beneficial. I will never let anyone make me feel anything I don't want to feel again or rob me of the passions that make me who I am.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

David Hume

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Charles de Gaulle

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

Charles H. Percy

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

Norman Finkelstein

Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.

Camille Paglia

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

Caspar Weinberger

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Dennis Miller

I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless.

Dennis Miller

Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator

Audre Lorde

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Pam Walker

The possibility for the process to be tainted is just too much.

Bill Nighy

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

Bruce Miller

We have no idea how long this process will take.

Chandler Parsons

Honestly, I was offended by the whole process,

Barbra Streisand

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Bill Joy

Interleaf is based on the formatting process.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

Jesper Koll

With the punishment, what you are seeing is that the reform process is not just speeding up, but it's actually getting serious.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

America Ferrera

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

Jerry Yang

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

Viggo Mortensen

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Sun Tzu

When he pretends to flee, do not pursue.

Bakul Dholakia

If we wish to rub shoulders with them, then we have to pursue a similar strategy.

George Washington

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

Dan Stephens

We'll aggressively pursue ... (the lawsuit) as was planned.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

William Congreve

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Charles Dickens

Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.

Alan Bennett

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

Chris Christie

I have another question: Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment in making our secrets vulnerable.Guilty or not guilty?

Chris Bosh

You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.

Dean Acheson

I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.

David Hume

.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

David Brin

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

Athol Fugard

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

Arthur Peacocke

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Mike Kramer

It's been so long since we've won. We've got to get back on the winning track.

Chris Cooley

It's just tough, especially since it's the first week,

Rudy Rodriguez

A lot of firefighters had been there since Day One.

Donna Young

They have just killed us since about noon. It's been crazy.