Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!
You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office seeking. Men of good character and impulse are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness. Disappointment makes them unjust to the last degree.
There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.
The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.
The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.
I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and they are not bound by moral codes or being ethical, so they can do anything and will do anything to get what they want.
Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
I don't believe in pushing myself in this industry where people do anything to gain what they want.
I always want to win at all costs.
There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.
My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.
I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.
It's a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone.
