I can smell your ambition like blood in the water.

Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.

— Ben Jonson

Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it…

— Anonymous

When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.

— Robert Jordan

“It is not a sin, he tells himself, there is no sin left now, there is only the blood and the water and the…

— Ian McGuire

There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

— Mignon McLaughlin

As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry…

— Ben Goldacre

“Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Must be feeding time."--Mea Brin, The Huntress”

— Michelle O'Leary

When you see a guy go down, you smell blood in the water.

— Anthony Famiglietti

You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

— Rich Galen

Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is…

— Holly Black

Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they…

— Orson Scott Card

“I like ambition. I like someone who gets up in the morning and has a purpose. A real purpose. I have one. I want…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

— Samuel R. Delany

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite

— Josh Billings

Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a…

— Ben Jonson