India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life,… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also… — David Moranis Copy Share Image
The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.'… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
The difference between this film [Your highness] and Pineapple Express was pretty much in the logistics of the technical ambition of the… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I have no ambition for what society says is important as far as things like money, and all that kind of stuff.… — Daniel Bryan Copy Share Image
And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
“Are you working towards some big goal in life? In the big picture, do you know what you want?" " I thought… — Dorothy Koomson Copy Share Image
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
All people dream, but no equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning… — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
I can't justify taking one minute of free time for myself. I'm restless to do things. Anything! Hell, I'll watch Top Chef… — Steven Yeun Copy Share Image
I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy… So I feel tonight like… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“His ambition was not to become wealthy or to be well known, an image which society for some reason dictates each individual… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a… — Duffy Daugherty Copy Share Image
In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a life-long process — and the higher… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell… — Louise Fletcher Copy Share Image
If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks… — Josef Pieper 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
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
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
“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