#aspirations

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#arouses #aspirations #because #completely #detach

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#aspirations #award #broadway #i #like

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ↗

— David Brooks

#aspirations #certain #clash #competitive #culture

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. ↗

— Brendan Francis

#day #dozen #dozen times #every #every man

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children. ↗

— Mark Sanford

#children #families #meager #means #needs

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist. ↗

— Vannevar Bush

#changes #good #men #persist #scene

If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#aspirations #attack #believe #capability #dealing

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#come #happened #never #old #pass

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#desires #emotions #fears #form #human

When all the kids answered "fireman", "dentist", "mother", "want to marry a rich guy" and "astronaut", mine was "rockstar" when we grow up. Half of that was met. I knew I wouldn't be happy with any other occupation that was not in the entertainment business. ↗

— Nona Sebastian

#rockstar #romance #business