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“Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.”

Knows Mind Hands Form Ocean Ambition Wings Storm Fierce Lightning

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem

“These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very much of the capacious, fierce and intelligent work of Adrienne Rich.”

Moving Voice Rich Serious Ambition Intelligent Fierce Urgency Lyrical Moving In Erudition Gravitas

Author:Tony Hoagland

“What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.”

Hard Cold Ambition Driven Pushing Over It Fierce

Author:Bette Midler

“I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make midnight cups of coffee. I was in the kitchen helping to dish up and having a fierce argument with one of the boys in the crowd when someone else interrupted to say: 'Of course Margaret, you will go into politics won't you?' I stopped dead. Suddenly it was crystalised for me. I knew.”

Helping Courses Boys Ambition Argument Crowds Coffee Cups Kitchen Hops Village Fierce Dishes Midnight Interrupted Coffee Cup

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.”

Book Soul Whole Form Energy Week Streets Drug Ambition Buried Fierce Cocaine Holmes Bakers Bohemian Old Books Baker Street

Book:Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes