Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Whelan

Paul and myself are not talking about Europe just yet. The ambition was to stay in the Premier League and we look like we're going to fulfill that ambition. We never thought we would get to the final of the League Cup. It's fairytale stuff.

John Gray

Some people are just more spiritual than others and I really had a strong ambition to know God,

Billy Corgan

If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.

Berthe Morisot

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

C. S. Lewis

Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

Carrie Fisher

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

Bette Davis

May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.

Erik Morales

Last Saturday night I run into a guy with a lot of ambition who wanted to win very much. Was in great condition and was obviously well prepared to fight me.

Char Miller

The ambition of the mayor to get into the heart of the community is quite laudable. However, shutting off streets will do the exact opposite. If you have no way to get to Main Plaza, you have no reason to go there.

Rebecca Davis

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Charles Canady

Partially born children are being eviscerated, you can see it right here.

Harry Holzer

Paths to legalization for those who are here and for those who remain here makes sense. Legalizing these immigrants will reduce some of the competition they provide to native born workers.

Tony Blair

Particularly with the shock of knowing that those that have perpetrated this were actually born and brought up in this country, I think it is particularly important we recognize the worldwide dimension of this,

Gregory Benford

Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.

Jack Kornfield

Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

George Vecsey

Some of the most inspiring moments in sports have come from players with physical defects. Tom Dempsey, born without toes on his right foot, kicked a 63-yard field goal in 1970, using a straighter, wider shoe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.

Paris Hilton

Some girls were just born with glitter in their veins.

Jason Stanford

Part of leadership is listening, and some of Chris' good friends told him that there is a better way to defend the top 10 percent rule. And we're reworking his defense of the top 10 percent rule, and we'll have it up soon.

Nina Holland

People have this remarkable difference in enzymes that defend their health from pesticide exposure.

Dick Heimann

Someone has to be there to guard the gates to make sure we do things right and to defend the company.

Adam Schiff

Our soldiers are the foundation of the nation's security and they must have the tools they need to defend themselves and this nation.

Kevin Klette

Our forwards were out of position and our defenders were in the middle of the ice and we got beat. It wasn't pretty.

Donald Rumsfeld

reminding participants of the sacrifices of this generation and of each previous generation that have so successfully defended our freedoms.

Jeff Houston

We've tried a lot of kids in that position - sometimes playing them out of position. We've got to find someone who can get in there, defend and grab some rebounds for us.

Todd Parker

We've talked a lot about the fact that the kids would like to defend the league title they got last year. If we keep winning in the OCC-Buckeye and pick off Reynoldsburg, we'll need them to lose one more game. Reynoldsburg's a good team and we're going to try and pick them off.

Ted Cruz

I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

Richard Egan

He denies the allegation and has done from day one.

Peter Anderson

He denies being involved in any conspiracy. Mr. Boone fully expects to be acquitted at trial and looks forward to his day in court.

Kai Bird

By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.

Steve Burns

We pressed them and stepped up a lot higher. St. Louis struggled to put their combinations together. Going into this game, I didn't think we were a good pressing team, but the guys showed me a lot of character. I learned something about our team more than anything that we can be a team that steps up and denies a lot of space for the opponent to play. In hindsight, had we put two halves together like the second half, we may have gotten the win.

Gilbert Herdt

When society denies them their deep-seated need to marry, it only makes them part citizen. The result is diminished hope, diminished dreams and diminished abilities to imagine a future of success.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.

John Anderson

Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that.

Edward Kennedy

No matter how many times the Administration denies it, there is no question they misled the nation and led us into a quagmire in Iraq.

Philip Ruddock

This is un-Australian and denies people a fair go,

Adriano Galliani

Real Madrid are interested in him but I don't know if there have been any contacts.

Doug Bereuter

Releasing Mr. Pollard would put vital U.S. interests at risk and send the message that we are not serious about punishing espionage.

Phil Brown

Paulo would be one we are interested in but not at the moment.

Alan Greenspan

Our operating procedures, as you suggest, do tend to smooth out short-run fluctuations in short-term interest rates,

Chris Byrne

Star Wars' is a 20-year-old brand. When the next 'Star Wars' movie comes out, there's going to be much more interest in the product.

Danny Diaz

Sportsmen represent a very important constituency to this campaign. They reflect, in many cases, the interests and views of a majority of Americans and rural America.

R. Robinson

Our weakness is inexperience. We have no seniors and we've never been here before. I'll be interested to see how we come out and play.

Beck

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

Bill Shaw

We've told all judges we're not interested in their money, we don't want it. We want the poles removed.

Eric Dubin

Regardless of what she did for a living, Bonny loved her kids and her kids loved her,

Tony Arntson

Really what we are focussed on is getting better each week. The kids keep competing.

Joan Chen

Relatively speaking, I was a lot more naive than kids today.

Craig Pippen

Our players have stayed positive even though we haven't come up with some wins. There's been some negativity surrounding our program, and the kids haven't listened to it.

Mark Douglass

Our rebounding killed us. In all of our losses rebounding has been an issue. We must become a better rebounding team. We need kids to step up.

Kendy Hinkel

Parents will see differences in the way kids are talking about what they learn.

Jim Wiscombe

Part of it was fatigue. We didn't sub a lot and kids got tired. We didn't make plays we normally make.

Billy Donovan

Part of it is youthfulness, but the one thing about the kids is that they're in every game.

Bob Williams

Part of this river is the Native Americans and the people we took it from. These kids never had that as part of their experience, so why not throw that in?

Stephen Blythe

Releasing it to the public would not be the right thing to do.

Dean Laidley

It is not for public consumption, but we have a lot of work to do this week.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Tom Davies

He's going to have to give an explanation somewhere for how it got into his system, ... His public explanation is that he doesn't know how it happened.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Yvonne Johnson

I go for public safety ... for public health.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

Gaston Gaudio

He was serving unbelievably and I couldn't do too much.

Bob Woods

We always want to work on our serving and serve-receiving.

Stephen East

They're serving a need much more than a want than say a Toll or a higher-end builder.

Richard Feinberg

If you're not serving the customer, you better be serving someone who is serving the customer.

Clarence Fountain

And when you are serving the Lord, you go where he takes you without fear.

Mary Thomason

This is a strong serving team and we have height. But not just height, there's talent there. We should be strong.

Alan McCoy

This is not chest-thumping. This is not done to intimidate. It is about serving our customers." ()

Caroline Norton

They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

Leonardo da Vinci

I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

Bette Davis

You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!

Arsene Wenger

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

LeBron James

I was just showcasing my talent today and we got another win.

Ricky Woods

I think they may be the most talented team we've ever played.

Patty Coyle

L.A.'s athleticism... with talent like that on their roster they're dangerous. Thankfully we got away with a win.

Kevin Beck

I think I have a lot of talent on the team,

Sven Eriksson

I think he is a long-term name. He is a very big talent.

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.