Unapologetically Ambitious Quotes & Sayings

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted. — Alexander McCall Smith

If you would live in victory ... you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt. — Amy Carmichael

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week — Art Buchwald

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective. — Waris Ahluwalia

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

By the way, food and rent aren't the only things around here that cost money. You sleep on the couch. — Jamie Lee Curtis

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying? — Michael Shaara

Each time you dip into the well of existence it changes you. Rapid mental development is that process. It is a process of escalating your evolution. — Frederick Lenz

Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish. — Melissa De La Cruz

I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kennedy just to do it. I'd like to go to the moon, but I don't want to be the second man to go there. — Evel Knievel

What words she had thought to write on the face of the moon were washed away from her as she submerged, trying to disturb no one, nothing. Trying not so much as to interrupt a current, even trying not to shatter into soft-edged platelets the green moon in the reflection. Trying to sidestep having any influence at all, now and till the end of her life. — Gregory Maguire