A Quotes
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“Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no part of Lafayette's character. In him the passion was nothing more than a constant and irresistible wish to do good.”
“Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others.”
“Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.”
“Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.”
Source: Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work
“Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.”
“Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.”
“Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.”
“Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.”
“Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.”
“Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir
“Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.”
“Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.”
“Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.”
Source: No Signposts in the Sea
“Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.”
Source: Plays of William Shakespeare
“Ambition, the soldier's virtue.”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.”
“Ambitionless people will always question your dreams. Do not allow their scepticism to impose additional limits. Make sure that the company you keep is filled with ambition and passion for your dreams to come to manifestation.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never be modest. There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. How can we ever be content that he should acquire just a little more honour in the world? No. Once we are clear that God is King, then we long to see him crowned with glory and honour, and accorded his true place, which is the supreme place. We become ambitious for the spread of his kingdom and righteousness everywhere.”
“Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.”
Source: Children of Dune
“ambitions that you're looking for is not going to stop until death .
no matter what your ambitions and you also forget the self”
“Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them.”
“Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.”
“Ambitious humans! We seek the glory of being heroes without first the service of being helpers...and find only humiliation.”
“Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.”
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination.”
“Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.”
“Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.”
“Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.”
“Ambivalence and ambiguity aren't necessarily signs of weakness or sins of indecision. They can be apt responses to events we don't yet understand, with outcomes we can't predict.
But they don't make for bold sentences or tidy talking points.”
Source: The Age of Grievance
“Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.”
“Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly.”
Source: If Success Is A Game, These Are The Rules
“Ambivalence is one of the biggest enemies of change. If you aren't sure that you really want to take action on something such as your weight, ambivalence will usually win.”
Source: 100 Days of Weight Loss: The Secret to Being Successful on Any Diet Plan
“Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it.”
“Ambiverts typically . . .
• Can process information both internally and externally. They need time to contemplate on their own, but consider the opinions and wisdom from people whom they trust when making a decision.
• Love to engage and interact enthusiastically with others, however, they also enjoy calm and profound communication.
• Seek to balance between their personal time and social time, they value each greatly.
• Are able to move from one situation to the next with confidence, flexibility, and anticipation.
“Not everyone is going to like us or understand us. And that is okay. It may have nothing to do with us personally; but rather more about who they are and how they relate to the world.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Ambos… me gusta que hables de los dos en el mismo pronombre determinante.”
Source: LadyKiller
“Ambos sabiam que esse era um grande passo dado na aprendizagem. E não havia perigo de gastar este sentimento com medo de perdê-lo, porque ser era infinito, de um infinito de ondas do mar. Eu estou sendo, dizia a árvore do jardim. Eu estou sendo, disse o garçom que se aproximou. Eu estou sendo, disse a água verde na piscina. Eu estou sendo, disse o mar azul do Mediterrâneo. Eu estou sendo, disse o nosso mar verde e traiçoeiro. Eu estou sendo, disse a aranha e imobilizou a presa com o seu veneno. Eu estou sendo, disse uma criança que escorregara nos ladrilhos do chão e gritara assustada: mamãe! Eu estou sendo, disse a mãe que tinha um filho que escorregava nos ladrilhos que circundavam a piscina.”
Source: An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
“Ambos se miraron casi sin pestañear por un largo rato. Ninguno pronunció una palabra, ninguno lloró una sola lágrima. Él fue el primero en acercarse. Llevó sus dedos hacia el cabello de ella, peinado como el de Farrah Fawcett, y rozó un mechón. Luego, le acarició el rostro y la comisura de la boca. Dirigió su palma hacia el hombro de ella y siguió bajando un poco más, suavemente, hasta tomar su mano.”
Source: Antes de la cosecha: 14 cuentos otoñales
“Ambos somos insociables, taciturnos, enemigos de hablar a menos que esperemos decir algo que deje boquiabierto a quien escucha y pase a la posteridad con el brillo de un proverbio" - Lizzy Bennet.”
“Ambriella, Every star in that sky shines for you.”
Source: These Twisted Bonds
“Ambrose had all the language required to define precisely the meaning of a cloud, the character of a sea, an attitude of rain, but to describe his own emotional weather he was limited to ‘Been better,’ ‘Been worse,’ and ‘You know yourself.’ When Christine first met Ambrose he seemed to have a great way with words but now she knew it was nothing but banter. He’d tell you about himself in a way that seemed spontaneous and open but he only began a story when he knew how it ended.”
Source: The Boy from the Sea
“Ambrose managed to fight his way free long enough to shout, “Am I the only ghost here doesn’t know how to ghost?”
Source: The Bone Orchard
“Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.”
“Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“Ambrosia and nectar.’
‘The food and drink we were giving you to make you better. That stuff would’ve killed a normal kid. It would’ve turned your blood to fire and your bones to sand and you’d be dead. Face it. You’re a half-blood”
Source: The lightning thief
“Ambrosial!" Apicius said to me yet again one afternoon as we chopped beets for the evening meal.
The knife revealed dark rings with every slice. There was something precious to me about black food- sinister yet seductive. Oh, how the beet juice would look in glass goblets, the torchlight glinting off the black surface! Apicius loved beet juice, and the rumors about its powers as an aphrodisiac were always a wonderful source of conversation with his guests.”
Source: Feast of Sorrow
“Ambrosius arrêta son interlocuteur d’un geste agacé.« As-tu déjà contemplé Rome de tes propres yeux ? L’un d’entre vous a-t-il même jamais approché la Ville ? D’ici, à vous entendre, vous l’imaginez comme une cité céleste toute de marbre, mais en réalité il n’y a plus que des ruines là-bas, tenant tout juste debout. Si par habitude l’on y entretient encore quelques palais, tant bien que mal, et qu’on les empêche de s’effondrer une fois pour toutes, les grands édifices du temps de sa splendeur blanchissent peu à peu tels des os laissés au soleil. Les maisons où l’on vit encore sont comme les vôtres, bâties de chaux et de torchis, ou de brique pour les plus luxueuses. Tout au plus plaque-t-on parfois un stuc sur leurs façades et leurs murs en espérant vainement faire illusion. Il ne subsiste de Rome qu’un fantôme s’accrochant aux marais des miasmes desquels elle avait jailli plus d’un millénaire auparavant.”
Source: Trois coracles cinglaient vers le couchant
“Ambulances always come with clouds of smoke. And then they disappear in a whistle. But what they bring is fear. Not freedom. Feardom is what they bring. And they bring fire and smoke. Oh, my nerves are bad tonight, yes, bad. I fear freedom. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom.”
“Ambulances were cool. “You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts,” I said to the EMT as I picked up a silver gadget that looked disturbingly like an alien orifice probe, broke it, then promptly put it back, hoping it wouldn’t leave someone’s life hanging in the balance because the EMT couldn’t alien-probe his orifices.”
Source: First Grave on the Right
“AMC [All My Children] launched my career and changed my life. I got married there and had my baby there and made so many close friends. I am so sad that it is going away. It is a part of television history. Pine Valley is a part of America. It breaks my heart. That role taught me how to really be an actress. It introduced me to a man who gave me my daughter. That is something that I am eternally thankful for and will always be.”