I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The amount of guilt you deal with as a parent is pretty profound. It's a constant balancing act. I'm an ambitious person,… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
As a typically ambitious player, I did what all others of that ilk do: Everything I could do to gain advantage for… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very difficult to make… — Luke Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think there's a lack of ambition in me. But then sometimes, I think, no, you can, like William Blake said,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT. — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity;… — Gerald M. Loeb Copy Share Image
“In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Keep ambitions high, in front of God and people, Your credibility will be in proportion to your ambitions — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani Copy Share Image
Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives.… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Yes. Have…have you ever been shot?” “Yep, more than once. But I was never shot by the same guy twice. If you… — Michael Deeze Copy Share Image
My friends thought I was crazy, that I should wait until I was dead. But I was determined. It is easy to… — Sak?p Sabanc Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the participation of women in the workforce is a serious productivity boost, but to enable this ambition,… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
If you want to make films, you'll watch Kurosawa. If you want to play a violin, you listen to Seghetti. Same with… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
When someone comes to you with big dreams, don't be too quick to belittle their ambition and dreams. Inspire and help them… — Rita Zahara Copy Share Image
All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off, but they've all given me a fervor. An angry ambition… — Tobey Maguire Copy Share Image
“A Gallup Study completed in 2008 asked followers which qualities they most wanted from their leaders. The expected descriptors—vision, purpose, drive, ambition,… — Jerry Colonna Marie R. Miyashiro Copy Share Image
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child. — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
“With great passion, observe every details of the sacred journey.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who… — Nicolas Caussin Copy Share Image
The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses,… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine. — James Frey Copy Share Image
Dreams are like our life force. They are our motivation. Dreams keep us going when things are tough, and they encourage us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories,… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life,… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing wrong with ambition, Sherry. Nobody wants to be average. Hell, average is easy. Going above and beyond—now that’s hard. That… — Lotchie Burton Copy Share Image
“ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better… — John Green Copy Share Image
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes — Chinese Proverbs Copy Share Image
My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive. — Berthe Morisot Copy Share Image
