Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate… — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the… — Laurence Shames Copy Share Image
There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
Setting San Francisco on a course to sustainability will require all of us to work in concert on a number of ambitious… — London Breed Copy Share Image
We always set ambitious goals in our group, and I have found that if you set your mind to it, you can… — Ajay Piramal Copy Share Image
“I suppose I'm ambitious for something in spite of the fact that most things known as success don't inspire me to try… — Robert McAlmon Copy Share Image
In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
As far as 'Birdsong' is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
We're not unique in our family. We're more ambitious but we're not special. I'm not funnier than anyone else in my family;… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Is it not indeed, possible that, while a high order of genius is necessarily ambitious, the highest is above that which is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Reading interviews with other people, I see them say, 'All I want is for our band to be massive', but it was… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The dreams and the visions of the Israeli founding fathers, these were very very ambitious dreams. They were world reformers. They wanted… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
But I do love working for Boris because he never stops. He's always fizzing with good ideas, and when you are looking… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
By leading on a strong emissions reduction target, the U.K. is persuading others on the need for member states to have the… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
My overly ambitious dream is to be a Lena Dunham - I get immense pleasure seeing her name repeated over and over… — Perdita Weeks Copy Share Image
If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not… — Shantanu Narayen Copy Share Image
Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
I don't know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like - the reason why… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn't that… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
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Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I am content, ambitious and equally know the need to switch off from work. My world is big enough to go beyond… — Arbaaz Khan Copy Share Image
This is very ambitious, but I don't care. I'm just gonna go ahead and find Amelia Earhart. Every day that goes by,… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be a performer. I was ambitious. I couldn't sing and I couldn't act. I could dance a little.… — Zoe Ball Copy Share Image
The idea that only the swaggering, all-knowing, and ruthlessly ambitious succeed is a lie. One that has discouraged so many people with… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
It's nice that established and emerging stars agree to appear in ambitious low-budget films. Such pro-bono work gives the movie a higher… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
We Should Never Allow Our Destiny To Be Dictated By Others Especially When They Are Not Ambitious Enough To Fulfill Their Own! — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
“address the great hunger on the part of high-aiming women for advice that speaks to our discontent—and to our ambition to be… — Debra Condren Copy Share Image
Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image