Ambition Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

— Matthew Henry

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

— Alexander Pope

I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he…

— Samuel Rutherford

Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult…

— Oliver Goldsmith

I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are…

— Norman Mailer

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as…

— Adam Gopnik

Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album…

— Dave Grohl

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had…

— Pietro Metastasio

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every…

— John Dryden

Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most when…

— Charles Churchill

Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is…

— A.C. Grayling