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For years, Senator Rubio has put the needs of Floridians behind his presidential ambitions. We need a leader in the Senate whose eyes are firmly fixed on the people of Florida by working together to get things done. – Republican Sen. Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The renewal of the system goes against free trade and may hurt any ambitions to lock in a wider agreement. – Thiago Soares	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Traditional Yemeni political actors used to find middle ground and didn't let their clashes lead to a full-blown civil war. The Houthis don't seem to be interested in compromising, they mix a lack of experience in politics with, as their own leader has said, limitless ambitions. The fact that Iran is involved aggravates things and brings in a regional dimension that makes a conflict harder to avoid. – Nadwa Dawsari	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They mix a lack of experience in politics with, as their own leader has said, limitless ambitions. The fact that Iran is involved aggravates things and brings in a regional dimension that makes a conflict harder to avoid. – Nadwa Dawsari	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
But if you look at what's happening internationally, at the G20 there was lot of coordinated pressure coming to bear around the issue of climate change, within the next few months the Australian government is going to have to make it clear to the international community what its ambitions are post-2020. The RET is such a critical piece of policy because there's really not much left when it comes to climate policy. – Andrew Thomson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If I am asked, I will do this. My own personal ambitions are not higher than those of Russia, therefore if they tell me: It is your fault, get your things and go, I will get my things and go without a question. – Valentin Balakhnichev	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We know that terrorists based in Syria harbour... ambitions towards the UK - trying to direct attacks against our country, and exhorting extremists here to act independently. – Fox News Parker	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Their ambitions are linked to the agenda of al Qaeda. – Raza Rumi	Found on CNN 9 years ago
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values -- or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be -- to be through her son, to live through her son. – Andrea Dworkin	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. – Phyllis McGinley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age? – Joseph Schumpeter	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments. – Bryant McGill	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel. – L. Ron Hubbard, www.scientology.org	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Joseph Conrad	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present. – Lawrence K. Frank	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – William Congreve	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past. – Dean Koontz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Realists don't fulfill their ambitions. There must be a dreamer in all of us. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ambitions are the Dreams we Believe can be fulfilled – Siddharth Astir	added by anonymous 14 years ago

For years, Senator Rubio has put the needs of Floridians behind his presidential ambitions. We need a leader in the Senate whose eyes are firmly fixed on the people of Florida by working together to get things done.

– Republican Sen. Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The renewal of the system goes against free trade and may hurt any ambitions to lock in a wider agreement.

– Thiago Soares

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Traditional Yemeni political actors used to find middle ground and didn't let their clashes lead to a full-blown civil war. The Houthis don't seem to be interested in compromising, they mix a lack of experience in politics with, as their own leader has said, limitless ambitions. The fact that Iran is involved aggravates things and brings in a regional dimension that makes a conflict harder to avoid.

– Nadwa Dawsari

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They mix a lack of experience in politics with, as their own leader has said, limitless ambitions. The fact that Iran is involved aggravates things and brings in a regional dimension that makes a conflict harder to avoid.

– Nadwa Dawsari

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

But if you look at what's happening internationally, at the G20 there was lot of coordinated pressure coming to bear around the issue of climate change, within the next few months the Australian government is going to have to make it clear to the international community what its ambitions are post-2020. The RET is such a critical piece of policy because there's really not much left when it comes to climate policy.

– Andrew Thomson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If I am asked, I will do this. My own personal ambitions are not higher than those of Russia, therefore if they tell me: It is your fault, get your things and go, I will get my things and go without a question.

– Valentin Balakhnichev

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We know that terrorists based in Syria harbour... ambitions towards the UK - trying to direct attacks against our country, and exhorting extremists here to act independently.

– Fox News Parker

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Their ambitions are linked to the agenda of al Qaeda.

– Raza Rumi

Found on CNN
9 years ago

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values -- or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be -- to be through her son, to live through her son.

– Andrea Dworkin

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

– Phyllis McGinley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

– Joseph Schumpeter

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

– Bryant McGill

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

– L. Ron Hubbard, www.scientology.org

added by anonymous
13 years ago

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

– Joseph Conrad

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.

– Lawrence K. Frank

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

– Mark Twain