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" A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. "

" Achievement results from work realizing ambition. "

" Acting is a big ambition, but I still have a professional wrestling world to conquer. "

" A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere. "

" After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very difficult to make a living as a theater actor in New York, which is why I moved out here, and I always had an ambition to work in television. I am a great admirer of the format, and I think it's how we tell long stories. "

Luke Macfarlane

" All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power. "

" All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. "

" All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. "

" All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. "

" A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because they don't often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don't usually get a chance to work with other black people. "

" Although, from the point of view of sociology, the overt ambition of 'American Pastoral' - to imagine the impact on a good man of America's fall from the family decencies of the '30s and '40s to the self-centred violence of the '60s - outstrips anything Sabbath's Theater attempts, the writing is no less fervid an excurse into the writer's mind. "

Howard Jacobson

" Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind. "

" A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. "

" Ambition aspires to descend. "

Pierre Corneille

" Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. "

" Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself. "

" Ambition can creep as well as soar. "

" Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings. "

" Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. "

Fergus Henderson

" Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. "

" Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! "

Walter Savage Landor

" Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions. "

" Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. "

" Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. "

" Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. "

Philip Massinger

" Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage. "

" Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. "

Edward Dahlberg

" Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. "

" Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. "

Emile M. Cioran

" Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. "

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