![To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
[Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/to-eat-at-anothers-table-is-your-ambitions-height-lat-bona-summa-putes-ali.jpg)
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness. Charles Caleb Colton
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All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.
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It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be. Alan Hansen
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We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal. Chogyam Trungpa
ambition successful men
You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery. David Morrissey
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I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points. David Nevins
height influence reader
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader. Caitlin Flanagan
height scared
I'm scared shitless of heights. Mark Cuban
height would-be folly
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly. Edward Gorey
height firsts poet
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. August Wilson
height depth literature
You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God. Edwin Louis Cole
height moral scales
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. Agnes Repplier
height fifth-grade growing
I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade. Billy Crystal
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I'm still pretty terrified of heights. Jamie Bell
height particular weight
There is no such thing as a 'correct' weight for any particular height - they are only averages. Henry Beard
tables sandpaper method
Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table. Alan Cooper
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I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive. Chris Bauer
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs. Caio Fonseca
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A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish. William Shakespeare
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Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table. David Hilbert
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