Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stacey Farber

When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of college in Toronto and wasn't happy there. I didn't have any friends in New York City, but I applied and got in. It was pretty overwhelming, but everyone in New York is so ambitious and creative.

Robert Silverberg

When I was 14, I thought, 'How wonderful to be a science fiction writer. I'd like to do that.' I have never lost touch with that ambitious 14-year-old, and I can't help chuckling and thinking, 'You did it, and you did it right.'

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.

Sam Altman

Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

Eydie Gorme

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

James Young

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

David Stern

We are pleased to have these renowned franchises represent the NBA in the most ambitious international competition in league history.

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn isn't a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn't a people pleaser. She's ambitious and manipulative, but she's honest. I'm biased, but I don't think a woman who has said 'no' to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.

James Vincent McMorrow

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

Charles de Secondat

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Charles de Secondat

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Charles de Secondat

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Charles de Secondat

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Charles de Secondat

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Charles de Secondat

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Charles de Secondat

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.

Abu Bakar Bashir

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

William James

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Taya Kyle

When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

Mike Smith

We wanted to throw a little more tonight, but old man weather wouldn't let us do that.

Ryan Rourke

The Pancake Man went well. We served over 150 people.

Sharon Stone

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

Samuel Smiles

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Selman Waksman

From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.

Sarah Snook

I think if I could be a man in any time period, I would be a pirate. You know, go climbing in the rigging, sword fighting. I'd like to do that.

Stephanie Zimbalist

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

Charles Caleb Colton

put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

Charlaine Harris

What are you, Zen Master Fang?

Carl Honore

Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.

Bertrand Russell

The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Methods are the masters of masters.

Bernard of Clairvaux

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

Bobby Darin

There is nothing wrong with being afraid - but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.

William Shakespeare

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Ken Leavitt

That was a very useful thing, and is something that was very much appreciated.

Susan Wyderko

Disclosures are only as useful as they are available.

John Montgomery

It's useful to validate specifications as they go through standardization.

Christopher Hill

as long as I feel it is useful to be here.

John Stone

They were toast, pretty much done. Most of the harbors were at the end of their useful life.

Ellen Terry

Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.