Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Key

Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions.

Richard Lamm

I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination.

Frank Lampard

There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it.

Virginia Postrel

The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.

Jeffrey Kluger

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.

Alan Cohen

Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

John Nersesian

As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.

Chris Adrian

I had always wanted to retell a Shakespeare play. It was an ambition from college days. But in order to be able to do it... the circumstances in my life didn't come together for a long time.

Rafe Spall

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

Becky G

Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.

Vince Gilligan

There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

Peter O'Toole

No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

Mike Fisher

We played well at all ends of the rink, from the goaltender out.

Tyler Hilton

Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.

Kelis

The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another.

Christina Aguilera

In the end you’ll see you won’t stop me.

Alice Sebold

I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.

Ronnie Barker

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

Dries van Noten

I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less 'decorative' than many might, and more fundamental to a garment's core.

Mark Zuckerberg

It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs.

Russell Smith

If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary.

Pat Conroy

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

Matt Blunt

We have the responsibility to do everything we can to make sure the journey to and from school is as safe as it can be for children,

Javier Solana

You have started your journey and if everything turns out fine, you can end up in Brussels.

Alan Kay

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

Charles de Lint

It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.

Charles Spurgeon

May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow.

Ivor Heerden

We're doing repairs on the breaches, but there are many, many, many miles of levee that we don't have any idea of.

Kevin Eastler

We're talking 100 miles a week, which is significant over what I used to do.

Steve White

We want more people using the trail systems. We've got miles of trails. Let's use them.

Tom Taylor

I pushed him a little through one of the miles to get him back on pace and the next mile he totally went out the back door,

James Osborne

I ran about 60 miles a week over the summer and I'm putting in about 50 miles a week now. So when I start tapering toward the end season it should be interesting.

Kevin Collins

You've been doing the same 100-plus miles per week that I used to do. You're not going to have the speed for 5Ks with that kind of training.

Mark Campbell

You couldn't keep him still. He was going 90 miles an hour.

Paul Levitz

Most of us never got more than 100 miles from our houses. That the school pulled this together is astounding.

Bruce Donald

Seventeen miles of the proposed 25 miles of the greenway are completed.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Eddie Compass

thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Edward Fitzgerald

To-morrow? - Why, To-morrow I may be / Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.

Elie Wiesel

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Edward Abbey

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

George R. R. Martin

A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.

George S. Patton

Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.

Sergio Garcia

Two thousand? Two thousand was... Valhalla. He's not back at where he was in 2000 for sure.