716 quotes found
“I know what you want. One month after the ascension of Philippe the Gullible, M. Laclos found in a gutter, deceased. Blamed on a traffic accident. Two months after, King Philippe found in a gutter,...”
“Alice knows those stories. The routiers and condottieri of the Free Companies, who fight the wars of whichever prince will pay their fees, and amuse themselves in between times, are said to commit ...”
“That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.”
“In this world, you only get what you grab for.”
“Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.”
“Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put”
“At last a lifetime ambition of mine to become a pimp was satisfied.”
“I am told by people all the time that they simply do not have time to read and listen to all the material they have purchased or subscribed to. But time is democratic and just. Everyone has the sam...”
“...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.”
“Ambition is greed rebranded.”
“We had made the error of staying small and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.”
“Peace is the first casualty in every ambition.”
“Ambition is greed without makeup.”
“Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.”
“Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and w...”
“It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is going to grow into a woman, not a man.”
“Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim's Progress regions of motivation, hard work, per...”
“There is something I want to do. But it's something to work towards, not something that should be handed to me on a plate. What's the point of doing something if you know you've got someone to resc...”
“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left the...”
“I don't care much whether I ever get to know anything - but I want to work out something in figures - something that hasn't got to do with human beings. I don't want people particularly. In some wa...”
