Theophrastus Quotes
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
Nathan Fillion -
From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.
Taliesin -
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza -
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor -
I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
Wale -
The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
Fernando Torres
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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
Vera Farmiga -
It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
Majandra Delfino -
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.
Mal Peet -
It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
Taron Egerton -
My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.
Tariq Anwar
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama -
All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.
Park Geun-hye -
Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
Bear Grylls -
My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
Lajos Kossuth -
My ambition is much higher than independence. Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the Earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
C. S. Lewis
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I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.
Natasha Little -
My mother came to see me in a play when I was a student, and afterwards, I asked her what she thought. She said, 'Honest opinion? No.'
Abi Morgan -
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category.
Ben Bernanke -
The warrior is not afraid of space.
Chogyam Trungpa -
I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there 'cause they really want to be there. It makes all the difference in the world. It's without ego and agenda, other than just wanting to fulfill a creative dream.
Mamie Gummer -
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
Theophrastus