A Quote by Rebecca Miller

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

Rebecca Miller

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Ambition Disease Feeds Itself

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Rebecca Miller
American - Novelist
Born: September 15, 1962

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Susan Sontag

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

William James

Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

Susanna Kaysen

Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.

Heinz Hopf

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Samuel Johnson

Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously. Disease is one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

Susanna Kaysen

I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.

Mikhail Gorbachev

To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.

Gretel Ehrlich

The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.

Frank Lowy

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Herman Melville

Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.

John McCain

Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.

Craig Venter

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

Larry Kramer

That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...

Stanislaw Lem

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