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Letter "A" » ambitions
«Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.»
Author: Dean Koontz
| Keywords:
ambitions, extreme, focused, focusing, forgetting, intensely, make love, Present and the Past, pretenses, strips
«Real life in Paris, the waiting-for-a-bus kind of existence that goes on without ever crossing the tracks to the city's elegance and worldly ambitions, moves on its own, without manifestoes or injunctions to stop it.»
Author: John Vinocur
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
ambitions, bus, crossing, Crossing the, elegance, injunction, injunctions, Paris, real life, tracks, worldly
«The question that is so clearly in many potential parents' minds: 'Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?'»
Author: Joseph A. Schumpeter
(Economist, Minister)
| Keywords:
ambitions, impoverish, impoverishing, insulted, stunt, stunted, stunting
«Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.»
«Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head. 'Cuz some day you are gonna get hungry, and eat all of the words you just said.»
Author: Ani Difranco
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Song Lyrics
| Keywords:
ambitions, and then some, eat, flavored, flavors, head, hungriest, hungry, Just Say No, peripheral, poster, squint, squinting, squints, thirties, thirty, Thirty two, vision
«Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies»
«Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.»
«Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Ambition,
Friendship
| Keywords:
ambitions, belittle, belittled, belittles, belittling, great, keep, keep away, really, small, those, too, try, with ambition
«The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
ambitions, capacities, Happy ending, possessions, proportion, The Happy Ending, virtuous
«Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.»
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