Ambitionem Quotes & Sayings

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva's tower ... I live still a collegiate student ... and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world ... aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all. — Robert Burton

I'm as involved as I can be. Whenever I'm asked to do something, I always tend to show up. — Queen Latifah

We can tell from the imagery a tomb was looted from a particular period of time, and we can alert INTERPOL to watch out for antiquities from that time that may be offered for sale. — Sarah Parcak

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles. — Ian Fleming

The Mars Committee and its various offshoots have struggled consistently over the years on behalf of the public interest. Their work is presented with great documentary force in Dr. Stanley V McDaniel's 1993 book, The McDaniel Report, published by North Atlantic Books of Berkeley, California. This report should be required reading for anybody who cares about the future of public science. — Whitley Strieber

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science. — Carl Sagan

And simple truth miscalled simplicity — William Shakespeare

Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions. — Suze Orman

The difference between men and women is this
if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't have much to be proud of. — Deb Baker

It is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of Christ. In this we have come to know the love of God, said John the Apostle, that He laid down His life for us, and we likewise ought to lay down our life for the brethren. He who has the goods of this world and sees his brother in need and closes his heart to him, how does the love of God abide in him? (1Jn 3:16 17) — Pope John XXII

Laugh if you are wise, girl, laugh. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings. — Tracy Chapman

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing. — Rembrandt

If the so-called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer - no one in his right mind should need any much greater proof that very close at hand is the end of Christianity. — Malcolm X