Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.

Rebecca West

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

William Shatner

The good life is one that's artistically made.

Roald Dahl

If you are good life is good.

Sasha Alexander

I don't know. I think you're born with that. I've always been somebody that enjoys life. I want to be happy in it, and I've always been that way. Since I was a kid, I really was somebody that was active. It's just an inner drive, and a willingness to lead a good life.

Sarah Vowell

But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.

Vincent Nichols

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

Wallace Stegner

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

Virginia Gildersleeve

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Jason Gardener

It has always been my ambition to win a major outdoor title and that will be the plan at the Commonwealths.

S. Naipaul

It is mysterious that the ambition should have come first - the wish to be a writer, to have that distinction, that fame - and that this ambition should have come long before I could think of anything to write about.

Kristan Higgins

I guess my ambition is simply to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can.

Alan Wallace

I have had this ambition for quite a long time but just did not know how to do it.

Bruce Davison

I'd like to tell them thank you. Their courage and ambition to get a higher education ... is something I truly admire. It's something I can't picture, but it's something I know happened, and that's why I commend them for doing what they've done.

Mark Hughes

Ideally we'd like three points for our Champions League ambition but it is always hard getting one when Harry has got Pompey in this sort of form.

Ben Affleck

I am a first-time director given an opportunity to pursue an artistic ambition I would not likely have the chance to elsewhere. The budget is excruciatingly tight, I am regularly abused and I expect to be fired sometime before we shoot. It's nice to see that, at Miramax, continuity has been maintained.

Marc Jones

He had his pick of schools. But his ambition is to become a top entrepreneur and businessman, and that's why he chose Bentley.

Pat Jennerjohn

He has a secret ambition he's going to IPO and be a millionaire. This tech shakeup is going to change a lot of people's thinking. It's an upscale way of buying a lottery ticket. It doesn't come into the plan.

Ahmed Hussein

Khartoum supports the Chadian rebels, financially, politically and militarily.

Teresa Johnson

He wants to win and we're just supporting him.

Jessica Wolf

He wanted to find his goals. We supported his choice.

Sam Richards

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

Joe Pemberton

Her support was important to me, ... I could sense her smiling.

David Newhan

He's a teammate. You're supportive of your teammates.

Gary Larsen

We feel it's safe, we feel it's a viable technology and we're supportive of it,

Joseph Lieberman

We support a woman's right to choose, ... The other ticket does not.

Michael Campbell

I think it's the Polynesian connection. I have a lot of support here and it's wonderful.