"But I have noticed this about ambitious men,……" — Mary Stewart
"But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it."
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19 Quotes by Mary Stewart
Mary Stewart has 19 quotes on this site.
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The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful…
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...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you…
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Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the…
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I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when…
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It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond,…
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Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were,…
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To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to…
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I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.
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It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are…
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The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
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Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will…
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More Ambitious Quotes
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
— Hannah Arendt
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It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
— Michelle Bachelet
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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people…
— Russell Baker
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
— Joseph Addison
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
— Annie Besant
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families.…
— Tom Brady
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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and…
— Jo Brand
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
— Louisa May Alcott
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