“That afternoon it seemed all disappointment. I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In… — David Pryce-Jones Copy Share Image
I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There is no place in the kingdom of heaven for a divided heart. It is in the division that love is lost;… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
Being a coach means giving your job 200% all the time and you're family is left on the side so I don't… — Emmanuel Petit Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . .… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“I never had any ambition to do anything commercial, anything journalistic. I wanted to be an artist, and I wanted to be… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
“What greater stimulus to ambition than the promise that the goals of which we dream, the nobility of spirit to which we… — Fiona Maazel Copy Share Image
“We would sneer sometimes at how pointless it all was, all those bourgeois souls wrapping themselves in luxury, isolating themselves from the… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
This ego has all the desires, ambitions, wants to be always on the top of everything. You are exploited by this ego.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
My ambitions have been raised as I have less to lose. I feel I could do anything and if people don't like… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Obedient to no man, dependent only on weather and season, without a goal before them or a roof above them, owning nothing,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they… — Robley Wilson Copy Share Image
Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Maura looks stunned, as though she's been slapped. "What about me? Don't you trust me?" She gives a hysterical little laugh. Tears… — Jessica Spotswood Copy Share Image
“However vital our choices seem, and however fervently our ambitions burn, God decides our vocation... “We are his workmanship,” writes Paul, “created… — Kathryn Butler Copy Share Image
I had two competing ambitions when I was a child: I wanted to be a Scientist and Discover Great Things, but I… — Suw Charman-Anderson Copy Share Image
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about god except that it's not me. So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
