“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
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner. — John Adams Copy Share Image
My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning… — Tracey Ullman Copy Share Image
A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“A veritable atlas. What rivers of desire, what mountains of ambition! Want, want, hope, hope. Your palm is nothing but an atlas… — Anuradha Roy Copy Share Image
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“There was this tendency to drift. And yet when she thought about it, what did she really want to do? Or be?… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year.… — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
My childhood ambition was to become a Tooth Fairy. And I do talk about that in my book 'Is You Okay.' My… — GloZell Copy Share Image
Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
Theres no committee that says, This is the type of person who can change the world and you cant. Realizing that anyone… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to teach. And when I spot talent without ambition, it makes me angry. I give students short shrift if they're… — F. Murray Abraham Copy Share Image
I have lots of ambitions. I'd love to do theatre. I'd like to be in 'Tea With Mussolini 2;' I'd like to… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
I have to make sure I stay focused and have the same ambition I've always had and work hard - that's the… — Romelu Lukaku Copy Share Image
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra.… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
Rahel’s toy wristwatch had the time painted on it. Ten to two. One of her ambitions was to own a watch on… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I… — William Laud Copy Share Image
A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
I had this vague notion that one day I might be editor of 'Vogue China.' It was a bizarre ambition, as I… — Katie McGrath Copy Share Image
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
Personally, I have nothing to fall back on, and that creates a weird ambition that you have to be good at acting… — Holly Marie Combs Copy Share Image
