Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerard Houllier

Lyon's biggest rival is Lyon itself. We need to stay vigilant. Our ambition is to win the treble.

Ellis Peters

Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay. Not here - not now.

Peter Mandelson

My fear is that in lowering expectations for Hong Kong, we will cause the overall ambition for the round to fall.

David Dein

None of these games are easy. All the other teams are hard and want to win. Nothing is easy in this draw, but it is our ambition to prove we are one of the best clubs in Europe - and we have yet to get past the quarter-finals, so we have something to prove.

Greg Evans

My ambition is the immediate page of the book I am currently working on. The next word to follow the last. A fresh new idea.

Brian White

My ambition has always been to give them good opportunities and if coming into the family business suited them, then great.

Adam Rickitt

My greatest ambition may sound rather like something from a greeting card, but it is a genuine desire to serve a local community and be a local MP.

Marilyn Monroe

My great ambition is to have people comment on my fine dramatic performances.

Stevie Jackson

When you're 14, 15, and you get together and start making a noise, it is the world opening up. You have that indestructible feeling when you're young. But your ambitions when you are 13 are different when you're 25. By that time, your ambition isn't to be a star anymore; it's to make a living doing music.

Italo Calvino

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Richard P. Feynman

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Richard P. Feynman

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

Richard P. Feynman

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

Mamata Banerjee

Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.

David Shore

We're not closing any doors. What we've found is everybody's so fallen in love with these characters that we have to explore it, but we cannot simply throw out the essence of the show, which is the procedural element.

Barbara Jordan

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

Mohandas Gandhi

Let no one say that he is a follower of Gandhi. It is enough that I should be my own follower. I know what an inadequate follower I am of myself, for I cannot live up to the convictions I stand for. You are no followers but fellow students, fellow pilgrims, fellow seekers, fellow workers.

Ralph Peters

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

Issa Rae

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

Albert Schweitzer

When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Curtis Sanford

Like Dougie (Weight) says, it's learning to win again. It's doing the little things that it takes to win, tonight was a prime example of that. The last two games were good examples of a lot of the leadership and a lot of the character in the room.

Michael Shea

Make no mistake about it ? I wanted the characters to know what we're doing,

Rocky Gibson

Luke's number will be called in situations like that. He showed a lot of character to drive the length of the floor and score.

George Lois

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.'

Phil Jackson

Looks like that's the character of what we have right now.

Stephnie Weir

Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark.

Guy Ritchie

So It's really about characters and sub cultures again. About gypsies and things that I couldn't squeeze in the last one, I stuck in on this one.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Mark Knox

Many of the facilities, tools and systems developed over the past 10 years can still be used for HD DVD. That translates to a much more rapid time to market, and a smoother and more economical transition.

Margaret Murphy

Sections of it are developed but it's not at announcement stage yet.

Marvin Hoot

None of us is going to be here in 20 years, on the board. This is going to be developed by the people, for the people.

Henry Harris

No one has ever done this before. These results would not have been possible without newly developed ultralight, high-temperature sail materials and beamed-energy propulsion methods.

Werner Christen

Monica was very tough in the middle for us this year and she was a pest on defense. She did exactly what we needed her to do this year. She was pretty much our main weapon early in the year. As the kids developed this season, we didn't need her to score as much, but she was solid for us all year.

Nick Swartz

From what Michael told us, he's had this for a while. During this off-season, he was doing some running drills and developed some soreness in that area.

Jacob Frenkel

If a quarterback is injured in a big football game, the game doesn't stop. But it is disruptive and a significant distraction on a professional level because Lay and Ramsey have developed a relationship.

Brian Bethune

Maybe we should all be praying for a warm winter because that might ease the pain.

Roberto Heras

I can't figure it out, ... I train for it just as seriously, but I just don't have the same strength. I prepare the same way when the Vuelta approaches, and everything falls together. In Spain I'm at ease and mentally I'm stronger than in other races.

Anirvan Banerji

Growth is more likely to firm modestly from here and it's quite unlikely to ease much further.

John Barbour

Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.

Elfriede Jelinek

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

Mitch Boeck

I felt like I had to ease the pressure off the guys. I thought state championship the whole time.

Dave Hakstol

We open up with Manitoba and then do not ease into our schedule.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

I'm not a protocol fetishist. It's more important to me that people feel at ease when I'm with them.

LaTanya Richardson

In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.

Malorie Blackman

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Rachel Johnson

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

Josie Bissett

My first children's book, 'Tickle Monster,' was inspired by tickling my son one evening.

Evan Hunter

I can't say which of the writers inspired me the most, but it was probably Hemingway.

Rinko Kikuchi

When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all that intrigued me. But what actors would propel themselves to do, and be, was awesome. It was like, how could these people give so much?

Alvin Lee

I lost a big part of me. That's what inspired me to take our music outside.

Joseph Cook

She was the first person who got me involved and kind of inspired me,

William Fonville

When I get inspired to write, the song just seems to come to me all at once. All I have to do is keep living to stay inspired.

Common

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

Albert Schweitzer

Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls are eventually torn apart and we slowly bleed to death.

Charles Spurgeon

You'll never be a winner of souls unless you're first a weeper for souls.

Charles Spurgeon

Winners of souls must first be weepers for souls.

Charles Spurgeon

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

Charles R. Swindoll

Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.

Dennis Quaid

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

Democritus

Soul and intellect are just the same things.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

Edgar Allan Poe

Lord help my poor soul.

Rich Alday

So far, we've had a lot of success pitching, offensively, defensively, and as a team. Hopefully, we'll make that continue.

Susan Hayward

We had a very successful fair. We were thrilled.

Tucker Max

There is no number or level of success that would make me think, 'Wow, I didn't think that was possible.'

Dick Wolf

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

Dick Van Dyke

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Dennis Ritchie

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group

Dennis Green

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Deana Carter

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.

Albert Schweitzer

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

Charles Spurgeon

There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

Charles Peguy

Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

Dennis Prager

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Democritus

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The cross is suffering with Christ.

Eduardo Galeano

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

Patsy Ramsey

let's have a trial and get it over with

Susan McDougal

was not on trial here, only Mrs. McDougal.

Charles Stanley

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

Charles Spurgeon

Great faith must have great trials.

Bill McCollum

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

Bernhard Goetz

The whole trial seemed surreal.

Jane Austen

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

Richard G. Scott

Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more.

Connie Willis

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

Dennis Potter

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is today that we create the world of the future.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

Edvard Munch

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

Eddie Vedder

Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.

Deepak Chopra

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

Deepak Chopra

If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?!

Alan Cohen

When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision.

Walter Benjamin

My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be.