Ambition

Ambition is one thing but stupidity is another in such a high profile case a this and they must not be allowed to intercede until all legal avenues have been followed. chill

Government offers compromise on Fort Hood documents 2010

Immodesty's new novel, Ambition, is published on 14 October (Ebury, £6.99)

Five things I know about style: Immodesty Blaize Shahesta Shaitly 2010

Ambition is Hillary's motivator, always has been ms. sims

Clinton supporters scrap letter pressuring Obama 2008

Ambition is the drive that propels to high altitude in the political sphere.

The Sunday Word: Middle East Interlude - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Oscar Wilde once said “Ambition is the last refuge of failure.”

Think Progress » The faulty-memory defense. 2005

Ambition is a weed of quick and early vegetation in the vineyard of Christ.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

When he who sought it in the dust is laid i His soul's unconscious of the name Ambition gain'd, while love the forfeit paid.

The rosary, or Beads of love [verse]. With the poem of Sula Rosary 1812

It can’t be a coincidence that “Free of Our Humbug” is the penultimate essay in Ambition and Survival, coming before the (by now famous) confessional finale.

A Note on Christian Wiman’s Reading of Basil Bunting : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Compared with what is called Ambition it shows like a want of love for Honour, and compared with this it shows like Ambition, or compared with both, like both faults: nor is this a singular case among the virtues.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

What it might have been we can only regretfully conjecture: it has perished with the uncompleted novel, and all the other dreams of that principle of the creative intellect which the world calls Ambition, but which the artist recognizes as Conscience.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various