Ambition Quote by Alice In Wonderland

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision

— Lewis Carroll

“is mathematically compounded of ambition, distraction, uglification and derision,”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“You know,” he said, “this design begins to appeal to me after all. Sea slugs aren’t the least bit arousing, but logarithms . .…

— Tessa Dare

“The two reinforcing loops take on different natures: virtuous to the successful and vicious to the unsuccessful.”

— Rich Jolly

A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me…

— Robert Herrick

We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that the oft-noted…

— Lynn Steen

“Beneath the eerie calm of these unfathomable waters were deadly whirlpools of ambition, anger and unhappiness.”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Now try these Drivetime talismans on for size: organized chaos … wild discipline … reverent blasphemy … self-effacing grandiosity … fanatic moderation … selfish gifts … twisted calm … garish elegance … insane poise … ironic sincerity … blasphemous prayers … orgiastic lucidity … aggressive sensitivity … convoluted simplicity … macho feminism.…

— Rob Brezsny

“How eagerly the words spring into shape, winding themselves around a rigid latticework of meaning like the curling tendrils of ivy that crisscross my…

— Leah Hager Cohen

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is…

— Edmund Burke

“We live without feeling the country beneath our feet, our words are inaudible from ten steps away. Any conversation, however brief, gravitates, gratingly, toward…

— Osip Mandelstam

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in…

— Thomas Carlyle