Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
“I am told by people all the time that they simply do not have time to read and listen to all the… — Dan S. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I want to see all the countries in the world and learn all the languages. I want to have thousands of friends… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Picture a thirteen-year-old boy sitting in the living room of his family home doing his math assignment while wearing his Walkman headphones… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The highest kind of writing—which must not be confused with the most ambitious kind…belongs to the realm of grace. Talent is part… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
When you don't have crazy ambitions, you're always happy just kind of getting by. Our expectations were always kept low. And so… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
In all of nature structure determines function. Yet many people consider the marathoner and football linebacker all to be just one composite… — William Herbert Sheldon Copy Share Image
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
My ambition for station was always easily controlled. If the place came to me it was welcome. But it never seemed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them… — Wale Copy Share Image
Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye,… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“One of the most important variables in whether an enterprise remains great lies in a simple question: what is the truth about… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is my ambition as a Dichter to maintain, for a small number of people who may happen to understand me and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
My father's vision was to see the Pilbara developed in a way that would benefit his beloved north, and West Australia and… — Gina Rinehart Copy Share Image
You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
When you're young, you believe in the most basic things. You believe that there are good people around you. And you don't… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That was the real difference, Ferguson concluded. Not too little money or too much money, not what a person did or failed… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty,… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
“You were thinking about how suburbs are perfect cradles for dreaming: they practically beg you to imagine another life, one lived at… — Colin Walsh Copy Share Image
“This was our ambition: to be small and clear and free. Alas, the summer’s energy wanes quickly, A moment and it is… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
