Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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That's a part that's always a challenge for athletes: trying to keep the passion alive while knowing it's still your job. There's no question that at some point, probably sooner rather than later, I'll be pretty burned out. And when that time comes, then I'll take a step back and take a look at it and see if I want to keep going.
Landon Donovan
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
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.
Edgar Allan Poe
I believe there is no one Principle, which predominates in human Nature so much in every Stage of Life, from the Cradle to the Grave, in Males and females, old and young, black and white, rich and poor, high and low, as this Passion for Superiority.
John Adams
My actual passion is getting things done.
Cheryl Mills
I do a lot of solo work in Europe and the Far East, and my main passion is traveling.
Belinda Carlisle
When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.
Plutarch
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore.
Jeremy Scott
People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.
Mike Rowe
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
John Boyd Orr
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle