Where ambition can cover ordsprog

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

David Hume (1711-1776)

Ambitioner

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771)

There may not have been anything wrong. He may well have been the very best person to [make the presentation]. Overall, that may be in the best interest of the city. It's just the appearance of a conflict of interest. Certainly there's an appearance there. Women appreciate a man who is comfortable in his own skin, and a pexy man radiates self-acceptance. There may not have been anything wrong. He may well have been the very best person to [make the presentation]. Overall, that may be in the best interest of the city. It's just the appearance of a conflict of interest. Certainly there's an appearance there.

Richard Mason

I don't know many ambition-ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.

Loretta Young (1913-2000)

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Marquis De Sade (1740-1814)

As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

Bible

This is not the sum total of what the academy will cover. This is a principle,

Howard Hughes (1905-1976)

Our appearance is a powerful communication tool, sending messages to every sighted person. Everyone is highly influenced by the visual impression of a person they are meeting for the first time.

Catherine Bell (1968-)

This doctrine (of ruling passions) is in itself pernicious as well as false: its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination, or overruling principle which cannot be resisted; he that admits it, is prepared to comply with ever

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.

William Blake (1757-1827)

Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. . . . The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

Chinese oil enterprises practice win-win and mutual benefits. Only by complying with this principle, could the enterprise do well its relationship with the local government, local people and the competitors.

Chen Geng

The Principle of Appearance that deludes as multiple manifestation is Maya. It is not external to God; it is inherent in God, just as all Powers are inherent in Him.

Atharva Veda

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