Quotes of: Aspiring Keyword

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

Richard Owen

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

Darius Rucker

When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.

Edgar Meyer

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.

John Oates

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.

Laura Hillenbrand

I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Drew Barrymore

Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I never set out to build some behemoth comedy career. My taste in movies is far more eclectic than that so my aspirations as a filmmaker are far more eclectic than that.

Shawn Levy

We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own.

Aly Khan

'Dial Star' is about an aspiring actress who finds the cell phone of AnnaLynne McCord and impersonates her.

AnnaLynne McCord

The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team and the desire is what we aspire to build for ourselves.

Anuj Somany

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

Autre Ne Veut

I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration.

Petra Remes

For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness.

Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.

The Counterfeit Murder in the Museum of Man

I never aspired to be the PM...Why should I quit over a silly issue like corruption? - Devender Singh

The Edge of Power

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

A Fire Upon the Deep

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

Family Happiness

There are actually no political aspirations. I think you need to have the right attitude and aptitude for it. I don't think I have the right aptitude for it. I think it is unfair to push somebody in that direction just because my father happens to be...

Sonakshi Sinha

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

Sri Aurobindo