[I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
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Related It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, becaus... JOHN GREEN The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the t... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the t... JOHN GREEN I could remember it. But I couldn’t see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambitio... JOHN GREEN I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with August... JOHN GREEN .. the smell of canals and cigarette smoke, all the people sitting outside the cafés drinking beer,... JOHN GREEN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comf... GILLIAN FLYNN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g... GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a... GARY F EVANS... What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS One thing is true and that Humans are the examples of killers which destroy other fellows dreams. DEYTH BANGER I could say.. Been there, done that and got the t-shirt. But i'm not here for just one t-shirt... SHANE J VAN DER VELDE There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world wh... DANIEL AMORY Now after everything is said and done, I miss the high school that was supposed to be my alma mater.... MARIA HERNANDEZ My dad always taught me to never be satisfied: to want more and know that what is done is done. That... THIERRY HENRY True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully a... BILL WILSON Tomorrow is always coming but never arrives. It arrives when it comes. Please use it wisely, because... THE INSPIRATIONIST What's the meaning of life? Other people. JOHN GREEN A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... RICK RIORDAN There something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don't come tru... DAMIEN CHAZELLE That was my greatest achievement because I was just a 19-year-old boy who thought dreams could never... GEORGE FOREMAN David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside ... CRAIG GROESCHEL I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never o... LARRY DAVID Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping
is a waste of dreaming, and dre... IZZI REEVES There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that the... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don... KATE DEL CASTILLO 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some poin... STEVE-O I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol D... ANGELA DUCKWORTH There is a thought among some brands of theology that souls are waiting up in heaven to be born. Now... CHARLES M. SCHULZ There will always be a part of me that wants to do a movie musical. I feel like you're doing you... ANNA KENDRICK There is never enough time to get everything done, but there is always enough time to get things don... JIM GENOVESE I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what lyrics might mean, and I'm ... SERJ TANKIAN I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life... DOLLY PARTON I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have st... FREEMAN DYSON I'm not sure why the saying goes..."be careful what you wish for"...it should be, "prepare yourself ... C. NZINGHA SMITH Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dre... TONY ARATA Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dre... CALVIN & HOBBES But the real truth is that it never occurred to me, MAGGIE GALLAGHER When I first got to WWE, the head of talent relations was John Laurinaitis, who is now my father-in-... DANIEL BRYAN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see,... MICHAEL ENDE When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see,... MICHAEL ENDE It occurred to me last year that we were coming up on a 10-year anniversary, and I thought, I've bee... FRANK DARABONT Because of the nature of a test, you're doing everything for the first time. And you realize that th... BILL CLANCEY Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there... DAMIEN HIRST Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what y... BARBARA BILLINGSLEY Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN My family kind of freaked out because this is a big season, not only for me but for our team. We had... LEE RUBIN She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON In this journey, the fear creeps in from time to time. The hint of that is there because there's... KERRI WALSH JENNINGS I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr... SAM RAIMI Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. May both the layman and he who has left the world think that this is done by me; may they be subject... FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER The thought filled me with grief, grief for the dreams we'd shared, for the love I'd felt, for the h... LEIGH BARDUGO It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came... CAMRYN MANHEIM Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was go... KATIE MELUA The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by... STEVEN MAGEE I went to an Irish Pub after the race and they saw me limping and they bought me drinks. I always lo... ERIC WORTMAN It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never b... WILL HARONDALE, CLOCKWORK PRINCE It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never b... CASSANDRA CLAIRE I don’t stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll al... SUZANNE COLLINS But there is nothing, no trace that she’s ever existed. She is not here. She will never be here ag... CHRISTINE FONSECA I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than ... NAVAL RAVIKANT 'Looking For Alaska' by John Green is a very great book. I feel like every teenage girl says... ALESSIA CARA Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of diff... EDDIE MARSAN The excitement of dreams coming true is beyond the description of words. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We all die, it's a fact that today you aren't here, yesterday you weren't here doesn't mean that tom... DEYTH BANGER The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous. DANIELLE STEEL I thought a thought which I never thought that it would be thought by me. VIKRANT PARSAI Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time... TANA FRENCH Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that? Please try to describe the picture as ... DEYTH BANGER I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and t... JUNOT DIAZ It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. Y... KRISTAN HIGGINS I thought about going to Crawford several weeks ago, ... It occurred to me that maybe I should go do... DANIEL HEALY It serves as a rude awakening when they show up and they realize 'Boy, it never occurred to me this ... BARMAK NASSIRIAN Nobody had ever done everything because few things are better remained untouched sometimes. Don’t ... BHAVIK SARKHEDI The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... CHRISTINA ENGELA I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half o... DAMON LINDELOF The escalation that has occurred is because (Palestinian Authority President Yasser) Arafat gave a g... DORE GOLD When I read a script, I always - the first question I ask myself is, 'Is there something that I ... GREG MOTTOLA And it occurred to me, standing there in that bleak, cavernous space, that nobody is ever just one t... A.W. HILL I thought that was appropriate because Mike Holmgren is the coach of Seattle, and was Reggie's coach... JEFFREY LURIE The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. HANNAH ARENDT I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that fee... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I never thought I would find you because I always knew that you would find me ANGELA PORISKY I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of t... LANA DEL REY Ava's father believed that myths and fairy tales - like dreams - opened a window into the unconsciou... KATE FORSYTH My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful... PETER CAREY I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to b... ARUNDHATI ROY
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