"Welcome to the graveyard of ambition" — David Nicholls

"Welcome to the graveyard of ambition"

— David Nicholls

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151 Quotes by David Nicholls

David Nicholls has 151 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and…
Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the…
Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be…
I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed…
If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious…
He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more…
Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed…
And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into…

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Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as… — Mary Kay Ash
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you… — Mary Kay Ash
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by… — Marcus Aurelius
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. — Marcus Aurelius
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was… — Paul Auster
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of… — Sai Baba
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for… — Charles Babbage
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and… — Pearl Bailey
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now… — Russell Baker
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. — James A. Baldwin

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