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.

Ron Roberts

Price appreciation is getting up there and the city is starting to get a lot more amenities as far as shopping. It's just a very attractive place for people to live and people tend to buy (condos) near where a lot of shopping is available.

Stan Sieron

Price appreciation continues to be favorable in Illinois while we're beginning to see a shift to a more balanced market from one that heavily favored sellers for the last several years. We are predicting a solid year for Illinois. Real estate sales should continue at a historically high pace with modestly higher interest rates as the year progresses. Strong demand fundamentals remain in place for the Illinois housing market.

Alexis McGee

Our research has always shown a correlation between foreclosures and a flattening home price appreciation curve.

E. P. Thompson

Our police officers are out there risking their lives. The least we can do is help the family they leave behind. We can also show our appreciation to the officers who are still with us. Morale is not at its highest with budget cuts, and while we can't pay them, we can come out and show how much we believe in them and support them. We have a great bond with our precinct, but it is just like telling your wife you love her. You can't just say it once and forget. You need to keep these bonds strong.

Patrick McMahon

People in the streets of Hancock County were cheering for the RIUSAR team as they were driving down the streets - yelling 'thank you Rhode Island, ' ... The people of this community are so thankful that even without having a home, they are offering up food and water to the rescue teams in appreciation for all they are doing.

Rob Walton

Our family remains committed to the ongoing growth and improvement of Wal-Mart, and to representing the interests of all shareholders. Jim brings broad business experience and perspective to our board, and also brings a deep appreciation for the Wal-Mart culture and the importance of sustaining that culture throughout the company.

Mark Vitner

Overall supply and demand are moving into much better balance. With that, we're likely to see far less price appreciation than we saw in 2005.

Lora Ho

Other than seasonal weakness, the Taiwan dollar's recent appreciation is expected to cost TSMC 4 pct of its sales in the current quarter.

Lora Ho

Other than seasonal weakness, the New Taiwan dollar's recent appreciation is expected to cost TSMC 4 percent of its sales in the current quarter.

Jim Henderson

Recent economic news around the world is causing us to reassess our near-term business prospects in key international markets,

Keith Morris

(Receiving the grants) started pointing us in the right direction of the whole change process, ... If that didn't occur, I'm pretty sure we would be doing business as usual.

Rich Gadomski

Price competition and the availability of quality scanning technology have encouraged and enabled the counterfeit tape market. We are aggressively exposing this business as it may put our customers at risk and negatively impact the perception of our quality and value of our brand. It's important that companies realize that they may be contributing to the problem by selling their used tape - or by buying from un-authorized resellers and distributors.

Deane Dotson

Our rental business stays very busy. And we don't require a Visa or MasterCard.

Ken Stein

Our partnership with ADP is a true reflection of successful collaboration, resulting in increased efficiencies. ADP has turned a typical business arrangement into a successful partnership between two dedicated parties with a common goal -- to lower costs and improve service levels.

Jill Lajdziak

Our owners don't want us to lose the honesty of our brand, how we do business without haggling. But they do want a different more dramatic look and feel.

Porter Erisman

Our overall position is that it is the responsibility of every business to follow the local laws of the countries in which they operate.

Sathya Baba

Our relationships are heart to heart relationships. Ours is a business of love, not a business of money or materials.

Stan Marshall

Our regulated utility business, non-regulated generation business and Fortis Properties all delivered increased earnings in the third quarter,

Jay Wright

Our lineup gets dictated by the circumstances of the game.

Brian Barnhart

(People) need to have respect for the race team due to the circumstances.

Bryan Colangelo

We've talked a lot about Mike. I'm not going to talk any more about the circumstances, only to say Mike has been a very valuable piece this year. He's done great things for the organization and we'll see if we can work it out where we can keep him.

David Baugh

I want you to understand the circumstances why this crime happened.

Judy Pardonnet

It is a strange set of timing and circumstances. But I am told there are occasions when a dog hits on a positive and there is nothing to be concerned about.

Dennis Lyberger

It is a priority, but we have to take the circumstances into consideration and set goals that are realistic. It's like saying I'm going to run the 100-yard dash in five seconds -- it's not going to happen. If we had the numbers, it would be a goal of ours.

Harold Jewett

It is an unusual set of circumstances. But we have the same description of events from a number of different people.

Tim Johnson

I think there's a lot of concern, has FEMA become a political dumping ground? Have they lost their professionalism, lost the focus under this new kind of circumstance so there will be a hard look at FEMA and what the overall response has been.

Susan Whitson

I think there were a lot of different circumstances.

Art Hogan

Regardless of what happens in the economy, we're going to use these products, ... These stocks are also oversold.

Carol Bartz

Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.

Lori Worley

Some of the campers are here, but nothing's going on at the track until Friday. Nothing that ever happens with our weather in March is a surprise.

J. C. Watts

Some get it and some don't, but I think most do, ... But I can only play what I feel. When I plan a program, it's just a road map for a musical journey. What happens on that journey is what makes the music interesting.

Tom Green

I think sometimes what happens is, I get desensitized to things and I don't realize how shocking some things can be to some people.

Mardy Fish

That was a lucky shot for sure. I don't practice that, but I don't shy away from that if it happens in practice.

Becky Hale

That's the kind of thing that happens here.

David Phelps

That's what happens where you have a fail-safe district.

Glenn Wilson

That's what happens when you're lucky enough to land a John Ramistella on your team. He will take it upon himself to get the job done.

Wally Amos

Regardless of any unpleasantness in my life, I still get up every morning and look for positive things to do, ... Who's In Charge.

Bob Harrington

Our plumbers will snake the pipes. At the Student Life Center, there is a problem because the pipes are smaller than we would like them to be.

Newt Gingrich

Paul Coverdell lived a life that we can all be proud of and look up to,

Paul Azinger

Payne Stewart loved life. He was the life of every party.

Joe Gibbs

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Jean-Marie Messier

Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.

Mike White

People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.

Jennifer Coolidge

People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.

Lofa Tatupu

Man! ... I'm lucky he didn't see me.

Billy Corgan

I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's day. I'm lucky sevens.

Carrie Vaughn

You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you." So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?

Carl Safina

From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.

Bette Davis

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

Andy Roddick

I was lucky to get out of that one,

Jorge Zamora

It is also lucky that our national team will play the host.

Danny Way

That was the scariest ... thing I've ever done in my life. I'm lucky I'm alive.

Michael Skibbe

That was a lucky win - you can see we still need work as a team.

Sitaram Yechury

Our party's position is clear. We are opposed to FDI in retail sector.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I still take my own lunches to work. That way I can control what I'm eating, as opposed to another doughnut.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Rory Bremner

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

John Boyne

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Erwin McManus

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Geoffrey Nice

The prosecution is completely opposed to any question of severance of the indictments.

Jake Paltrow

'La Notte' is my favorite of the Antonioni pictures and my favorite work of the master cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, who also shot '8 1/2' for Fellini.

Robert Blake

I think we actually went out to see Rosie. I think Bonny even took some pictures and we said we were settling in.

Anna Jones

The only thing I think about this is that it's big. I saw a picture (in the newspaper) and I wanted to see it.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Randy Price

I find pictures of driver's licenses, pictures of Social Security cards.

David Wimhurst

From that we may be able to start to get a picture of who was involved.

Courtney Green

It is a little nerve-racking when you start to think about the big picture of it. You want it to be perfect.

R. Robinson

His picture is up everywhere. His presence is everywhere.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Lindsey Graham

We need somebody ready to be commander-in-chief on day one, who understands there are no moderates in Iran; they've been killed a long time ago.

Jeff Gundy

That's a very important weapon to have, especially when you have somebody like Bryant.

Saeb Erakat

I was under shock, ... You have to think, 'take it down, then they'll storm the plane, somebody may shoot.'

Lana Savage

I think I did the right thing, that's what I think. And I feel like I got somebody that could have done this to someone else.

Avery Cutshaw

I think he can play, but somebody is going to have to give him a chance.

Don Robinson

I did talk to somebody one time who said he was Doug Wood.

Jim McMahon

I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

Lofa Tatupu

He is somebody you really have to worry about and you have to know where he is at all times.

David Edwards

Spikes and stuff are what bog down the network,

Joey Cheek

Some of the stuff teams do is interpreted differently by different people.

Bill Sienkiewicz

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff

Bhagat Singh

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

Ashley Tisdale

I'd love to do more action stuff, in the future.

Bill Budge

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

Bill Budge

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

Bill Burr

I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned about depression and how to combat it. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it.

Lynn Turner

That stuff isn't free. It has a cost.

Ricky Woods

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

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.

Thomas Needham

From what they tell me he is a smart, hardworking and talented person.

Joe Girardi

He's a talented young man. You know what, he's going to make some mistakes.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Carl Taylor

He's a very talented young man. He is really the only one that does that (voice call) especially at his age.

Jeremy Mincey

He's a very talented guy. He would have been unstoppable.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Bergen Evans

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Scott Lewis

I didn't give my trust to my guys,

Chris Duhon

If only we had an answer. Trust me, we don't know.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Jack McConnell

I don't trust him. He has wandering eyes!" ()

John Hill

I'd trust her with my wife and with my life,

Tim Duncan

I got a lot of (grief) for that, too. Trust me, I'm getting my share.

Charles R. Swindoll

We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.