The international monetary order is more precarious by far today than it was in 1929. Then, gold was international money, incorruptible, unmanageable,… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
“So there is something perhaps more difficult to conceive of, sometimes born of resignation and sometimes not- a life in which not… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“At certain periods it becomes the dearest ambition of a man to keep a faithful record of his performances in a book;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Copy Share Image
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay,… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To accept yourself wherever. you are… And don't think in terms of competition! You need not be anywhere else. Wherever you are,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I would like the ambition to go directly into songwriting; individual songs. I want to see what I can do to push… — Radical Face Copy Share Image
We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
One of the things I noticed is that if you look up the word ambition you will see that when it's applied… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Music is one of my big interests - I once had a rather fanciful ambition to be a singer - and of… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the… — Longchenpa Copy Share Image
Every business is manmade. It is a result of individuals. It reflects the personalities and the business philosophy of the founders and… — Thomas Rowe Price, Jr Copy Share Image
The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come… — Roy Bennett Copy Share Image
Meditation is your awakening. The moment you awake, sleep disappears and with it all the dreams, all the projections, all expectations, all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“What elevates one and not another to the level of genius is not only talent and ambition and luck, but a gift… — Jan Swafford Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Leadership is not about sitting and presiding, it's about a going somewhere. To be buoyant, you must not only ignite passion around… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects...… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
My childhood ambition was to become a Tooth Fairy. And I do talk about that in my book 'Is You Okay.' My… — GloZell Copy Share Image
So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
The torture that they are coming up with in China is so creative. They have this other method where they'll take a… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
