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“Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.”

People Two Ambition Hollywood Species Rewards Lust Crave Alliances Abiding Love And Friendship Endangered Species

Author:Lynda Obst

“I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.”

Writing Character Black Space White Decision Ambition Driven Lust Flawed Black Or White

Author:Kevin James

“The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.”

Passion Evil Causes Party Violence Ambition Greed Lust Engaged Contention Lust For Power

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.”

Passion Literature Support Ambition Revenge Lust Cruelty Nervous Fluid Avarice Kinky It Support Justine Lust For Life

Author:Marquis de Sade

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.”

Fall Cutting Blood Ambition Lust Dust Diamond Tennis Balls Glow Worms

Book:The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

Source: The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

“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.”

“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”

Looks Past Fear Gratitude Ambition And Love Grateful Lust Thankfulness Avarice Love And Gratitude Screwtape Letters

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.”

“History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.”

World Politics History Greater Pride Ambition Train Misery Revenge Lust Hypocrisy Appetite Zeal Avarice

Book:Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790

Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790

“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.”

Philosophy Grows Ambition Lust Enjoyment My Ambition

Author:Thomas Otway

“Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.”

Author:Daniel Noonan

“God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.”

Men Use Office Ambition Blind Lust Earning Avarice Goats

Author:Martin Luther