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“Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for anything and she...”
“I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.”
“A longing for the extraordinary had grabbed ahold of her and was burning her up inside, so hot and fierce that her heart had gone stone cold toward everything and everybody standing in her way. Tha...”
“Even if weve never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a churcheven if we have, and vowed never to go backdeep down in our striving hearts, beneath all the ambition and the fear, we suspect that...”
“Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds for advancement. Students are too busy jum...”
“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground”
“Let your ambitions fly. Let nothing hold you back.”
“A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.”
“He shed a lake of blood and murdered a king for a cold, lonely throne.”
“Minor talents or failing talents ask much of those who associate with them. They suck, they cling, they sour, they devour, and they can kill their hosts. Disappointment is a deadly companion. We di...”
“Ambitious people understand intelligent people far better than intelligent people understand ambitious people; therefore, ambition will always triumph over intelligence. Once you appreciate this re...”
“A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old]”
“Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him.”
“Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.”
“everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see ...”
“To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is the goal of the survivor.”
“And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty a...”
“I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?”
“Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.”
“By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to th...”
