“Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.” FirstsLooksSaidEyeLastsAirAmbitionBlindFortuneProsperityPrudenceEagles Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.” RealityAirAmbitionHotReputationAbandonAcademyModernismPostmodernismHot Air Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials? Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise?” WayDoeMadeSoulLightLeftSidesCompanyDarknessAirAdventureSolitudeSkillsAmbitionBraveSurroundDaringCockpit Author:Charles Lindbergh
“How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!” FeelsForceMorningAirSweetAmbitionStrivePettyElementalsForces Of NatureErrandsFlamingosMorning Air Book:The Complete Sherlock Holmes Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.” PeopleMadeMemoriesStruggleAirDespairAmbitionConsciousEveningHatedPassagesSoberGreedyGlamourFadedEphemeralIntoxicationIncessantIndescribableGlossKindliness Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
“How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!” FeelsLittlesForceNatureMorningSunAirSweetAmbitionRedShiningStriveCloudsFolksDareStrangerLondonFeathersPettyFloatsElementalsForces Of NatureRimsErrandsShine OnFlamingosMorning Air Book:The Complete Sherlock Holmes Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.” Has BeensAirAmbitionAdventurousThrustRivalryIndividualistic Author:Louis Kronenberger