One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock.… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year… — Stacey Farber Copy Share Image
We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is an ambitious… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
They talk about how men are chasers, but women are just like that too. At least a lot of the women that… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets,… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though,… — John Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
Everybody I knew who was really ambitious and kind of annoying wanted to move to New York. I like it here but… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational.… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from… — Tom Cotton Copy Share Image
You know, women in Hollywood, we don't get action franchises and superheroes. The rom-coms that made Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and Reese… — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I just want to say one thing about the '70s. Enough with this purer, "It was a better time," business. Every time… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we continue to show young girls that they are being compared to other girls, we’re doing ourselves a huge disservice as… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
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I would say that the one incredible thing that Karachi has going for it is the unabated supply of new migrants that… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after.… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a private creative person or something. And actually, working on 'Shiva Baby' and watching girls my age be… — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile.… — Nicole Scherzinger Copy Share Image
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I have reached far beyond my competence and have probably secured for good a reputation for flamboyant gestures. But the times still… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Technological transformations give you the chance to set up new and ambitious ventures. That's what I did with FastWeb and that is… — Silvio Scaglia Copy Share Image
After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a… — Marshall Herskovitz Copy Share Image
Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
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Cinema is haute couture or, if that's a little too ambitious, at least it should approach that standard. Pathe Plus is just… — Jerome Seydoux Copy Share Image
“In a society riven into ‘us’ and ‘them’, an ambitious young person might well want to be one of the group in… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
I never heard the expression, "A strong man," unless somebody was in the gym lifting a heavy barbell. Why is there a… — Megan Griffiths Copy Share Image
We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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