Ambition Quote by John Adams

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

— Gene Robinson

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

— Aristotle

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

The people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed of uncontrollable…

— John Adams

The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

— Winston Churchill

When you can't do what you love all of a sudden because of an uncontrollable situation, it sucks.

— Ayesha Curry

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes…

— James Taylor

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens…

— Michael Jackson

“You were totally unprepared for her”

— Richelle Mead

Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

— Euripides

When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work…

— Chuck Hagel

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

— Rudy Rucker