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ambitions

«A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.»
«I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.»
Author: Oliver Reed | About: Ambition | Keywords: ambitions, dry, pub, pubs, sleep with
«For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values -- or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be -- to be through her son, to live through her son.»
«I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot beacause I knew different things from her....Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? Gatsby»
«Big results require big ambitions.»
Author: Heraclitus of Ephesus | Keywords: ambitions
«Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.»
«Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.»
«America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.»
«All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind»
Author: Joseph Conrad | About: Ambition | Keywords: ambitions, miseries
«A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Ambition | Keywords: ambitions