“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!” PeopleShouldStillsTwoMightRunningLinesAnimalHalfUnited StatesStreetsEventsConversationNormalAmbitionEnglandFortuneSurpriseClimateSizeExtremesAccidentsDrawingFranceHolocaustElephantsExaggerationCartsSurprise MeTrams Author:Elinor Glyn
“No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and think ourselves happy and satisfied; but afterward, when the froth and foam have subsided, we discover that the goblet is not more than half-filled with the golden liquid that was poured into it.” ThinkingHeartEnoughPleasureHalfAmbitionCapacityFilledGood ThingsSatisfiedGoldenEnthusiasmSuccess In LifeLiquidFoam Book:Goose-quill Papers Source: Goose-quill Papers
“I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.” MenWayFeelsHeartEndsLyingSleepHalfBoysJourneyHe ManQuietAmbitionConscienceImpulseAccomplishmentTonightInnsHalf WayTariffs Author:Woodrow Wilson
“At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book. ...I had observed onprinted fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ...So under the title of my prospective work I wrote: By the author of "Les Miserables," "The Woman in White," "Dombey and Son," "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Our Life in the Highlands," the last-named being an opus of good Queen Victoria. I had not read all these works but they existed on our bookshelves, and I hoped to produce something worthy of comparison.” WritingBookAgeLastsFatherWhiteHalfOur LivesProduceSonAmbitionWorthyTitlesQueensSatBrownEtcComparisonTomsDesksVictoriaBookshelves Author:Rheta Childe Dorr
“The whole point of why I'm doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the space and do half of the interesting things in the world and have half of the dreams and ambitions. Our slogan is, "If they see it, they can be it."” IfsWorldWholeShowsDreamKidsGirlSpaceInterestingHalfBoysAmbitionSlogansInteresting ThingsBoy And Girl Author:Geena Davis
“Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.” KnowsMenGivingYearsMindLongDoeEnoughStrongChanceSinHalfSweetCreaturesAmbitionWeakFingersCuriosityLustStealingShakesTunesOver ItAssociationVery StrongHeelsStrong EnoughGratificationKickingRelishLabyrinthDrearyBest YearReverieWhistlingDrummingScrewtape Letters Author:C. S. Lewis
“Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.” WayHas BeensSeemsAbleEarthAttentionHalfLibertyMankindMastersReturnAmbitionIndependentCourtCirclesOne WayFearlessComparisonResolutionVirtuousEarnestServitudeLive Free Book:The Essential Adam Smith Source: The Essential Adam Smith
“A young man's ambition - to get along in the world and make a place for himself - half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.” IfsMenWorldWayAgeYoungTermHalfLuckyAmbitionYoung ManLucky You Author:Robert Penn Warren
“One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.” PeopleWellsWarRealProblemDreamHandsSocialHalfLibertyPovertyAmbitionNotionOppressionIdeologyOur TimeFedsNurseFashionableGrievanceSocial ProblemsGrandiose Book:Controversial Essays Source: Controversial Essays
“I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .” YearsOpportunityBusinessHalfCareersChildhoodAmbitionTwentiesInvestmentInvestingBoringSpendingBoredOdd Author:Chris Corrigan
“Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes -love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself -and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others -should we call it joy?” ThinkingLoveShouldHumansMayArtRealRunningJoyArtistSufferingImaginationHalfRichAmbitionArt IsRiversStonesSpeciesFeministTinyThemeCracksIntroducingHeroismIncapableOne HalfFlawlessCreeksSubjugationLove DeathFeminist Art Author:Andrea Dworkin
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” WantChildrenSeemsJoyDesireReligionStrongSexHalfChristianityLordImagineSeaGoes OnDrinkOffersCreaturesAmbitionWeakInfiniteIgnorantHolidayPieMudOur LordHeartedSlumsGreat DivorceHalf HeartedMud PiesDesire For God Book:Weight of Glory Source: Weight of Glory
“Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date” NeedsFirstsLittlesBookEyeAgeAbleLastsReadingHalfWrittenJourneyReaderAmbitionPagesLaughterWindowBraveMemoirPsychologicalFallenDesperateImmigrantsWetAgonyTribesAngstRelishGaryTrademarksSpatsAnticsWet Eyes Author:Mary Karr