A Quote by Pierre Corneille

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

Pierre Corneille

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Ambition Been Descend Having Peak Reached Sated

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Pierre Corneille
French - Dramatist
June 6, 1606 - October 1, 1684

Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.

Pierre Corneille

Ambition aspires to descend

Pierre Corneille

Ambition aspires to descend.

Pierre Corneille

Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.

Pierre Corneille

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

Hans Rosling

Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.

Bob Beamon

In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in the history of international oil industry and bid the mighty peak farewell.

Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari

All my music has always been about positive, having ambition, having goals, having dreams, and believing in yourself.

R-Truth

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Henry Ward Beecher

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.

Carlos Fuentes

And sometimes people say, 'Oh well, we all descend from Adam and Eve.' But do you descend from Charlemagne directly? Do you descend from Saint King Louis IX? I do.

Princess Michael of Kent

I had no sense of having reached some goal because I was an etoile at the Paris Opera. My ambition, if you can call it that, was to discover and learn and be excited by what I was doing. If I didn't have that, I would find it elsewhere.

Sylvie Guillem

...it 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.

John Green

I haven't really reached my peak yet.

Josh Howard

Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel.

Roxane Gay

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

Elizabeth West

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