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Letter "A" » aspired
«Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.»
«He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher»
«For thence - a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale»
«FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable.Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to be famous aspired. Content? Well, his grill has a plating of gold, And his twistings are greatly admired. --Hassan Brubuddy»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adj, admired, aspired, conspicuously, gold plate, grill, grilled, plating
«In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.»
«What I aspired to be! And was not, comforts me»
«O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead! That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds which too untimely here did scorn the earth.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
aspired, gallant, Romeo, untimely
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