“Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In this wilderness cries the voice of Patrick White, Australian extraordinary, who has quite other, more austere and indeed prophetic ambitions. (...) (H)is failures are certainly the equivalent, and perhaps the measure, of other men's success.” MenVoiceWhiteNumbersNovelModernCryAmbitionStandardsExtraordinaryWildernessAustralianPropheticDo It YourselfSmall NumbersModern Novel Author:David Pryce-Jones
“One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.” WayHas BeensModernAmbitionTalesBridgesSensibilityGothicMy AmbitionVictorianGreat Author Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation.” PeopleWorldWantNeedsBelieveUsedExistenceDestinyDemocracyAtheismModernMastersAmbitionInstrumentsPositive AtheismLifestyleObjectivesSoleEmperorSaviourFreedom And HappinessModernisation Author:Wei Jingsheng
“Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relationships made by international ambitions and greeds ... War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made possible to the female an equal share in the governance of modern national life; it will probably not pass away much sooner; its extinction will not be delayed much longer.” MenHumansArtMadeWarBodyCultureGivenShareModernActivityEqualAmbitionIntellectualFemaleGreedInternationalWorks Of ArtGapsExtinctionGovernancePassing AwayHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsDelayed Author:Olive Schreiner
“To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness” SoulWholeModernAmbitionSatTortureSpheresMy Ambition Book:The Will to Power Source: The Will to Power
“My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.” EnjoyStepsCreativeModernAmbitionRemainsBe CreativeEnjoy Life Author:Natalie Massenet
“I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.” WantLifeArtKidsAgeUsedModernTypeAmbitionEnvyOld FashionedGrandpa Author:Hal Boyle
“Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on the productive capacities of society, but which is of no direct benefit to anyone - not even to the greedy themselves, whose illusory chase after a will-o-the-wisp leaves them morally bankrupt and unhappy.” MayFormSawsModernEffectsBenefitsAmbitionCapitalismCapacityDirectGreedUnhappyDestructiveProductiveAdamGreedyIllusoryWisps Author:Allen W. Wood
“The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.” ThinkingBookSeemsYoungOrderReadingModernTalentTelevisionAmbitionEmptyPresidentialGiantsLegendsBook ReadingCommentatorsTelevision Watching Author:Russell Baker
“It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".” SelfHardDreamEyeFatherBeliefGoalModernHard WorkAmbitionCommitmentCapacityIndiaWideEnterpriseInitiativeScratchesUndertakingsBeliveBelief In SelfEyes Wide Open Author:Anil Ambani
“The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.” IfsKnowsMenWorldWisdomNatureModernMountainAmbitionHillsRemedyDiscontent Author:Eric Rucker Eddison
“The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.” WritingLittlesPhilosophySexBornPartyNovelModernLonelinessSourceAmbitionAccountsLocalsBombsSquaresDistressDocumentsBourgeoisCocktailsGrudgeSatiricalWhiningObscenityOverpopulationCocktail Parties Author:Renata Adler
“Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.” NeedsHas BeensStatesBodyHandsOrderNumbersModernAmbitionAgencyTwinsImpressedPreventingHyperPseudoEmpathetic Author:Mark Steyn