"Welcome to the graveyard of ambition" — David Nicholls
"Welcome to the graveyard of ambition"
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David Nicholls
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151 Quotes by David Nicholls
David Nicholls has 151 quotes on this site.
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If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and…
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Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the…
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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
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I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
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I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be…
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I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed…
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If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious…
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He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more…
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Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed…
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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…
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
— Marcus Aurelius
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was…
— Paul Auster
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of…
— Sai Baba
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
— Pearl Bailey
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
— Russell Baker
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
— James A. Baldwin
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