Ambitious Minds Quotes

#1. Boobs have always been sort of a problem for me." Will's eyes widened. "Boobs are never a problem for anyone. Ever.

Christina Lauren

#2. So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds.

Edward Gibbon

#3. Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.

Norman Vincent Peale

#4. Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

Dick Morris

#5. You will see true character after a defeated ambition

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#6. No ambition which feeds on blood can be a worthy one

Nilesh Rathod

#7. But nothing is crueler than a coward, and the slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining.

Cormac McCarthy

#8. Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.

Susan Wittig Albert

#10. But, to tell the truth, a soldier doesn't notice a war much more than a civilian does, except his own tiny piece of it and that just on the days it is happening.

Robert A. Heinlein

#11. One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#12. I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

#13. I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre.

Brigitte Nielsen

#15. Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

Edward P. Jones

#16. And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?

Joseph Conrad

#17. O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

Edmund Spenser

#18. NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

Ambrose Bierce

#19. Read (or listen to on CD) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand This book is a fictional cautionary tale of what would happen if the most ambitious, innovative thinkers were no longer rewarded for using their minds to help advance society.

Steve Siebold