A Quote by Ethan Canin

Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

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Ethan Canin
American - Author
Born: July 19, 1960

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.

Ethan Canin

I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope.

Kyra Davis

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

Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But there is no need! This smallness is your own imposition upon your freedom, upon your unlimited possibilities, upon your unlimited potential.

Rajneesh

Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

When I was a small child, I began on small mountains. Now, as I am getting older, the small peaks are getting bigger. If I am lucky, some day I will end on a small peak.

Reinhold Messner

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

Kristin Cashore

Too much contemporary fiction seems purposefully to address small things in small ways. And yet why not try for the all-inclusive, the gripping, for the audacious?

Darin Strauss

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

Gregory of Nazianzus

One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.

Anuj

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Luc de Clapiers

Our party [Republicans] has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is to start a small business. That's why everything I'll do is designed to help small businesses grow and add jobs. I want to keep their taxes down on small business. I want regulators to see their job as encouraging small enterprise, not crushing it.

Mitt Romney

Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.

Eduardo Galeano

I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact.

Tinker Hatfield

A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.

Rachel Simon

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

Tracy Kidder

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