Quotes About Ambition

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

This is the deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right and your life would amount to something.

The doorman leaned into my shoulder and said, A lot of young people don't know what they really want.

So long as my checks cleared, I'd no interest in figuring down to the penny how poor I always was. For the same reason, I've put off writing a book on writing. I didn't want to be faced with how little I could offer on the subject. How stupid I remained after all this time and practice.

Söylemeye çal??t???m ÅŸey ÅŸu: Buras? Amerika. Otuz bir çekmekle baÅŸlars?n?z, grup sekse kadar ilerlersiniz. Önce biraz ot içersiniz, sonra eroine terfi edersiniz. Kültürümüz böyle; daha büyük, daha iyi, daha güçlü, daha h?zl?. Anahtar kelime: ilerleme.

Annemin hoparlördeki boÄŸuk ve h???rt?l? sesi; 'Doktor olmaya nas?l karar verdin?' diye soruyor. Paige omuz silkiyor; 'Ä°nsan?n gençliÄŸini bir ÅŸeyle takas etmesi gerekiyor...

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact," Tyler said. "So don't fuck with us.

If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't.

May I never be complete. May I never be perfect. May I never be content.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived, he says, his face outlined against the stars in the driver's window, and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables. The drop of his forehead, his brow, the slope of his nose, his eyelashes and the curve of his eyes, the plastic profile of his mouth, talking, these are all outlined in black against the stars.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we are just learning this fact. [...] So don't fuck with us.

Podemos tener suficiente, o conseguir un poco solamente nos hará ansiar más?

Every age brought its specific terror. As a boy, Felix had lain awake, afraid the house would burn down. As a youth, he'd dreaded bullies. Later, it was conscription into the army. Or the fear of not learning a trade. Or never finding a wife. After school, his career. After his son was born, he feared everything. His secret dream was to face down such a horror that it would leave him inoculated. He'd never suffer fear of anything, ever again. These

Il motivo principale per cui la gente se ne va dai paesini di provincia» diceva sempre Rant, «è perché così poi può sognare di tornarci. E il motivo per cui ci resta è per sognare di andarsene». Con questo Rant voleva dire che nessuno è felice, da nessuna parte

Todos olham para mim. Não importa o que eu faça, eles ainda querem mais, melhor, mais rápido, diferente, mais novo, maior.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact, Tyler said. So don't fuck with us.

JesteÅ›my niekochanymi dzie?mi historii, wychowanymi na telewizji, która przez lata wmawiaÅ'a nam, ?e pewnego dnia zostaniemy milionerami i gwiazdami filmowymi, i gwiazdami rocka, ale tak siÄ™ nie stanie. I to wÅ'aÅ›nie teraz do nas dociera. WiÄ™c nie zadzieraj z nami.

Con todo, uno puede ser un chaval que se la está cascando y al cabo de un momento ya nunca podrá ser abogado.

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver

Yes, Icarus fell to earth after flying too close to the sun, but what a glorious fall it must have been. Almost worth the flaming wings tied to his arms, waving helplessly in a shower of

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact," Tyler said. "So don't fuck with us." The

Let me never be complete. May I never be content.

He was tired of learning history. He wanted to be it. Charlie wanted the history of the future to be him.