Brandon Mull Quotes
In his writings, Patton was shameless about his ambition to woo Lena to be his bride. He detailed the gradual progress he made, playing music for her on his violin, writing her poems, beguiling her with stories, engaging her in conversation. It was clear that he obsessed over her. He knew what he wanted and never relented until she was his.Brandon Mull
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza -
So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
Katey Sagal -
If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
Beau Willimon -
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Sallust -
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust -
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
Iain Sinclair
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson -
My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
Ilie Nastase -
It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
Taron Egerton -
Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have this biting ambition to be at the top.
Malaika Arora Khan -
My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.
Tariq Anwar -
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama
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The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
Barney Frank -
My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
Lajos Kossuth -
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
Oliver Herford -
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
Alfred P. Sloan -
Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!
Philip Schultz -
Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.
Bennett Miller
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I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.
Persis Khambatta -
It's time to end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down.
Barack Obama -
I would never think of myself as a role model.
Lynsey Addario -
Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
Victor Hugo -
In his writings, Patton was shameless about his ambition to woo Lena to be his bride. He detailed the gradual progress he made, playing music for her on his violin, writing her poems, beguiling her with stories, engaging her in conversation. It was clear that he obsessed over her. He knew what he wanted and never relented until she was his.
Brandon Mull