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ambition mind firsts
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
ambition errors suffering
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.
ambition son men
All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.
ambition perception prudent
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. Alan Hansen
ambition want plus
We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want. Aiden Wilson Tozer
ambition goal quality
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. Chogyam Trungpa
ambition successful men
You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ambition journey discovery
I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery. David Morrissey
ambition simple thinking
I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points. David Nevins
asking may usual
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?
asking good-enough enough
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. Alan Alda
ask china friendly stay
We want to stay friendly with China. We would like to ask China to be a little more transparent. Yoshinori Ono
asking-questions people understanding
If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.
asking want grumbling
What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one. Catherine Booth
asking-why television want
Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television? Caitlin Moran
ask god invent minutes ourselves side ten
We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin. Mads Mikkelsen
asked reason
The only reason why I know is because I get asked all the time.
ask check false gives identify information people phone provide recommend respond themselves time written
The other thing is to ask the person on the phone to identify themselves and who they are working for, ... At any time they should be able to provide something in writing. We recommend that people dont respond over the phone but have information mailed to them. That gives them time to check it out and, if it is a scam, (the false organization) wont have written material.
bottles shots brandy
A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you. Cary Grant
bottles messages meals
I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message. Aimee Bender
bottles instinct entrepreneurial
The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out. Alan Sugar
bottles should pints
Every pint bottle should contain a quart.
bottles should
A quart bottle should hold a quart.
bottles paper pistols
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol. Alexandre Dumas
bottles perfume release
Poems . . . are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped—what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again, Jane Hirshfield
bottles bread milk
I drank my bottle of milk and ate my morsel of bread somewhere on the outskirts, while I circumspectly studied my environment or else fell to meditating on my own harsh lot. Adolf Hitler
bottles coming hills roll
I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes? Karl Pilkington
bring community otherwise services
We want to try to bring services to our community that would not otherwise be here.
bring company concept ramp roll somebody time
We want to take the concept as big as we can. To really ramp the company up and roll it out the way we want to, we really wanted to take some time and bring somebody in of this caliber.
bring candidates good neither people
The other two candidates are good people but neither one of them would bring real reform. John Shadegg
brings element entire grant hill locker looks positive room strong sustain team time
The other thing you get with Grant Hill is the leadership, the professionalism and the good, strong positive character. He brings that element into the locker room and into your team as well. He's just doing really well and it looks to me that this time he'll be able to sustain it the entire season.
bring defense drive helping kick offense passing played score teams using weapons
The other teams I played on were more keyed in on defense. The defense was going to bring our offense and that was it. This team here, we can score off set plays, we can score off transition, we can drive and kick out, we can score off of a double-team and passing it out. We have a lot of weapons to play with. We're just using them out there and it's helping us score points.
brings family food power together
The Power of Food is really Spiritual. It not only brings the whole family together on the same table, but also brings the whole world together. Vikas Khanna
bring justice needs pay son
The person who did this to these two needs to pay for it. He will never bring my son back or Sebastian back, but I want justice done.
brings good pc personal together tool web
The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet. Bill Gates
bring guys reason worse
The only reason I think about it is that you guys (reporters) bring it up. It's worse if you think about it, so I try not to. Chris Hernandez
dealing might serving stop
We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.
deal dime increase nickel offer recognizes table three wage
We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.
deal might ready supposed systems understand whatever
We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.
dealing hierarchy might military properly
We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.
deal opportunity positives sanctions ten tournament understanding
The positives are closure. We're going into the Big Ten tournament and we want our student-athletes to have the opportunity to participate in this tournament understanding there won't be any sanctions they have to deal with. ... They can play without that stress.
deal egyptian palate pleasures strangle whom
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
deal earn employees exemplary great hard hard-work honor proud represents salute share team work
We are proud to earn this award. It represents a great deal of hard work for us, for our suppliers and for their suppliers. We salute our team of exemplary employees and suppliers, and share this honor with them.
deal later super
We started the deal and here they are 30-years later in the Super Bowl.
deals people valuable
There are some deals to be made right now. Some people don't want to rebuild. And they don't want the headaches. But it's not as valuable as it will be in the future.
degrees measuring productivity
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. Alan Watts
degrees biology
One of my degrees was a science degree in biology. Elizabeth Moon
degrees hysterical easy
The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it. Bill Nighy
degrees punjabis marble
Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian Chetan Bhagat
degree depend economic hope partners trading whether wrenching
Whether those adjustments are wrenching will depend ... on the degree of economic flexibility that we and our trading partners maintain, and I hope enhance, in the years ahead, Alan Greenspan
degree fund seed
We're going to seed the clouds. To what degree and how we do it and how we fund it is yet to be determined.
degrees bliss form
The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly Desiderius Erasmus
degrees done sitcom
I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success. David Alan Grier
degree detail difference exist machine molecular tiniest
The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world. K. Eric Drexler
halls jimmy power sought
Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory. Loretta Lynch
halls true
I am ecstatic. I want to keep representing the residence halls as true as possible.
halls seminary intellectualism
You won't find God at the Seminary and you won't find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism. Charles R. Swindoll
halls klan threat
The real threat are the unrobed Klan in the halls of government, ... Dissident at Large.
halls leaves next stayed students talking together
Usually, when he does these things, he'll give a talk, and then he and everyone else leaves and comes back the next day. Here, the students stayed together and were able to keep talking in the halls and the restaurants and lobby.
halls vague
Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall. Harold Brodkey
higher fewer
The higher you go, the fewer women there are.
higher
The higher up I went, the less happy I was. Dave Chappelle
higher rising students
We have to get students rising to that higher standard.
higher naturally raise software stocks trade
We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar.
higher law past quality submit
We are getting more submissions so, on the law of averages, we are going to end up with higher quality bands. Those who didn't submit in the past now know this isn't some rinky-dink festival.
higher prices
Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.
higher life people
In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life. S. Jay Olshansky
higher
Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I. Alexis de Tocqueville
higher percentage trying
We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them. Mark Richt
miles people trail using
We want more people using the trail systems. We've got miles of trails. Let's use them.
miles safe thinking
We're going 200 mph. We're not thinking about being safe or we wouldn't be going 200 miles an hour. Jeff Burton
miles runners ifs
You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner. Bruce Robinson
miles pay scottish sent shipping shops
Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be filleted, then sent back to Scottish shops and restaurants, than to pay Scottish filleters. Rose George
miles pulled school together
Most of us never got more than 100 miles from our houses. That the school pulled this together is astounding.
miles million
We're about a million miles away after (Monday) night.
miles proposed seventeen
Seventeen miles of the proposed 25 miles of the greenway are completed.
miles
We're doing repairs on the breaches, but there are many, many, many miles of levee that we don't have any idea of.
miles safest
No one here cared. It's all the (people) 60 to 80 miles up the river...Trojan was probably one of the safest things we had around here. Bob Burns
realities
Mexico is a mosaic of different realities and beauties.
realities writer
There are some rougher realities about being a writer in Montana,
realities
I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world. Eduardo Galeano
realities reflect strategic
does not reflect the strategic realities of today. Donald Rumsfeld
receive
We've become very well-known and through our exposure, we receive a lot of yearly invitations.
received ruling weapon
Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.
receiver running thinking wide
Miscommunication. Usually, that is a wide receiver running that. I was thinking one thing and Jerramy was thinking another. Matt Hasselbeck
received results
We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.
receive response town
We have yet to receive a response from the town or the Benjamin Co.. Sean Moran
received zero
We have received zero pledges for this appeal, Jan Egeland
received saint value whatever whether work
Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does. Heber J. Grant
received
I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.
receive
Upon death, heirs receive a step-up in basis.
risk superstitions currents
No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...
risk may banking
Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
risk aftermath economy
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
risk debt aftermath
Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices, ... This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
risk acting doe
The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks. Al Pacino
risk myopic carpet
We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.
risk normal anthem
There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia. Dave Barry
risk matter laurels
When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big. David Sze
risk care
I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
running men roots
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
running vices common
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.
running moving views
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.
running men hands
Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.
running eye two
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. Charles Dickens
running pain boys
I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.
running church-bells religion
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. Charles Studd
running europe usa
My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period. Charles Stross
running wall real
Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?
seen sound stretch
We were as fundamentally sound defensively during that stretch as I've ever seen us. Greg Jackson
seen super tickets week wrote
We wrote more tickets this week than I've ever seen on a Super Bowl.
seen shining
To outsiders, you are seen as a shining light. You are seen as a beacon. Marc Morial
seen
I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout. Sam Taylor-Johnson
seen
Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that? Verne Lundquist
seen
Shocking. I don't know if I've seen something like that in a big game.
seen since team teams
Since I've been in the NFL, I've never seen a team go 10-6 and not make the playoffs. I've seen teams that were 9-7 and 8-8 make the playoffs. It would be mind-boggling to be 10-6 and not make the playoffs. Keyshawn Johnson
seen since
Since I have seen him play he has been stunning. He has unbelievable pace. Roy Evans
seen
We've seen worse. We've come through a lot together.
united-states significant congress
Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States. Chris Chocola
united-states lines problem
The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution. Denis McDonough
united-states states united
Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States. Charlaine Harris
united-states immigrants nations
The United States is historically a nation of immigrants. Charles Rangel
united-states may constitution
I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may. Abraham Lincoln
united-states folks collapse
You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses. Bruce Springsteen
united-states grew states
I grew up in the United States. Dominique de Villepin
united
I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States. Barack Obama
united united-states
We (send) them all over the United States.
walk
We always have big rallies when they walk him, even before Mo was here. Felipe Alou
walking knows
But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go. Denise Levertov
walk
We have no car, no bicycle, and no roads. We have to walk everywhere.
walking-sticks literature crutches
Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick. Charles Lamb
walks corpses
You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed. Charles Baudelaire
walks i-can walking
Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly! Bessie Coleman
walking-forward blind ifs
If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward. Ayumi Hamasaki
walks
With us right now, you can give us 20 walks and it'll still be a 2-1 or 3-2 game. Frank Robinson
walker
Walker Digital's going to be around for a long, long time,
water listening erratic
The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.
water wet
You can't get wet from the word 'water.'
water mind trying
Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.
water should said
I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there. David Miliband
water sirens kind
My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters. David Knopfler
water firsts looks
Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?” “We’re going to look for water,” said Alf. “And food?” said Tubby Ted. “Water first,” said Alf. “We can go days without food.” “We can what?” Tubby Ted shouted.
water flying trying
Turbulence: This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, "Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence." Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water buffalo organs off the windshield.
water long historical
I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks.
water gold batteries
I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.... David Stockman
women resentment consequence
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
women flower sun
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
women intellectual female
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
women doe attention
The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
women modest bashful
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
women decorum length
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
women said mould
She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!
women want today
You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women. Alan Jay Lerner