ambition

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.

No ambition which feeds on blood can be a worthy one

Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?

Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.

She knows about the music stuff, but she doesn't care. That's why I didn't tell her about my job at the studio. She doesn't want make me want to be better, like you do. She doesn't get that it's scary... to want something so much and not be sure if you're good enough.

Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

In Russia, the person who put Sevastopol on the literary map was Leo Tolstoy, a veteran of the siege. His fictionalized memoir The Sebastopol Sketches made him a national celebrity. Already with the first installment of the work published, Tsar Alexander II saw the propaganda value of the piece and ordered it translated into French for dissemination abroad. That made the young author very happy. Compared with Tolstoy__ later novels, The Sebastopol Sketches hasn__ aged well, possibly because this is not a heartfelt book. As the twenty-six-year-old Tolstoy__ Sevastopol diaries reveal, not heartache but ambition drove him at the time. Making a name as an author was just an alternative to two other grand plans__ounding a new religion and creating a mathematical model for winning in cards (his losses during the siege were massive even for a rich person).

For he, who has never sailed through storms, can never trust sailors of such ships.

Always stay one step a head, unless you__e already there

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

He hated House members who longed only to run for the Senate, and senators who longed only to run for the presidency. He was appalled by what he felt television had done to the Senate by the mid-fifties. It had become a major launching platform for presidential campaigns. He thought television had ruined the Senate as a serious body. __ll they do there is preen and comb their hair and run for President. It__ like a presidential primary over there,

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you__e from, especially if you__e from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

The only candid thing in life is time, nothing else flows seamlessly

You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.

Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about five and twenty. I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers _ ambition and indigestion.

I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other.

Richard, marked for misery and defeat, acknowledged that power which sentiment possesses to exalt us__o convince us that our minds, endowed with a soaring, restless aspiration, can find no repose on earth except in love.