If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because I never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away...
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
She was afraid of nothing and demanded everything.
It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus...
Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
My ideas aren't afraid of height.
For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and...
That's what he learned from his life so far: always aim smaller.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?