Overly Ambitious Women Quotes

#1. I think part of running for president, people want to know who you are, what influenced you, what motivates you, not just where you stand on issues but what is in your heart and what were things in your life that led you to believe the things you believe in, and fight for.

Karen Finney

#2. It passed, though. That was the bad thing. It always passed.

Sarah Dessen

#3. Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again.

Zakes Mda

#4. All the gods know is destinations.

Sylvia Plath

#5. When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.

Thomas Keller

#6. We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

Asa Gray

#7. If we could convey a smile or a reason to smile to each one we meet, we could create a world of true harmony.

Jes Fuhrmann

#8. The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!

Milan Kundera

#9. There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

Daniel Ellsberg

#10. To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

Simon Sinek