Ambition Quote by James Thurber Download Open image “This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.” — James Thurber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Feet Fortune Graves Gravy Posture Slave
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else… — John Pearson Copy Share Image
You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave. — Sam Cooke Copy Share Image
“You mean you are now my slave without illusions, and for that reason you shall feel the weight of my foot without mercy.” — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
“And the Bastard grant us... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Some one had that day been buried, and less care than is usual had been taken in closing up the grave, for, as I… — John William Polidori Copy Share Image
“How can you ask us to go back to our parlors?” I said, rising to my feet. “To turn our backs on ourselves and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Say not a word in death's favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than… — Homer Copy Share Image
“This is my life, I thought, as my taxi slogged through heavy traffic and inched through the tunnel to Logan Airport. I have excised… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.” — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.” — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“ There was an old coddle so molly, He talked in a glot that was poly, His gaws were so gew That his laps… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“you might as well fall on your face as lean over too far backwards” — james thurber Copy Share Image
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“I don’t understand,” said the scientist, “why you lemmings all rush down to the sea and drown yourselves.” “How curious,” said the lemming. “The… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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