What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and had large tonal ambitions. A movie that could be poignant and funny, and suddenly quite violent. To have a character utterly sideswiped, and to learn that life is about balance.
I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. . . Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires.
To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.
Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never be modest. There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. How can we ever be content that he should acquire just a little more honour in the world? No. Once we are clear that God is King, then we long to see him crowned with glory and honour, and accorded his true place, which is the supreme place. We become ambitious for the spread of his kingdom and righteousness everywhere.
To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
My boy, you must find a kingdom big enough for your ambitions. Macedon is too small for you.
The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going.
I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.
I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.
The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.