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  • Humble, no visible aspirations for wealth.†   (source)
  • Such claims were probably made for medicine, but for Robbie the matter was simpler and more personal: his practical nature and his frustrated scientific aspirations would find an outlet, he would have skills far more elaborate than the ones he had acquired in practical criticism, and above all he would have made his own decision.†   (source)
  • Pet names have no such aspirations.†   (source)
  • * "It is amply proved that someone with an IQ of 170 is more likely to think well than someone whose IQ is 70, Beyond this, the IQ level becomes relatively unimportant in terms of ordinary occupational aspirations and criteria of success.†   (source)
  • I'm an average teenager, just like yourself, with the same aspirations and heartaches."†   (source)
  • These buildings, this hall, this dream of poets of centuries is the wild aspiration of crazy architects alone.†   (source)
  • If you have any aspirations to fiction writing, the perfection of this story has to inspire awe and envy.†   (source)
  • Soon enough, though, Mahmoud learned of his son's aspirations, and, fearing he would lose his son to the unforgiving sea that had almost taken his own life, he forbade him from swimming long distances.†   (source)
  • He was creating an imperial self out of some tabloid aspiration.†   (source)
  • It was the aspiration of all those of us with professional ambition to work our way as close to this hub as we were each of us capable.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was a symbol of the balance in my life between aspiration and pragmatism.†   (source)
  • It was the biggest cafe in the ghetto, and had artistic aspirations.†   (source)
  • Someone who imagines a reader pausing over the story of Nathaniel's descent from lofty aspiration and saying, "There, but for the grace of God, go I. Well, Nathaniel tells me, there was Joseph Russo.†   (source)
  • What aspirations do you have?†   (source)
  • They had social aspirations — social climbers, I suppose you could call them.†   (source)
  • It seemed to her that in her external bearing she had succeeded only in deceiving Mrs. Shigemura; inwardly she knew her aspiration for worldly happiness was frighteningly irresistible.†   (source)
  • How maddening it was to have been born in a cotton field with aspirations of grandeur.†   (source)
  • She gave lip service to the world: she went through the motions of complying with the regulations governing the behavior of teenaged girls from good families; she developed a halfway interest in clothes, boys, hairdos, gossip, and female aspirations; but she was uneasy all the time she was away from the security of those who she knew loved her.†   (source)
  • Moreover, unlike Willie-Jay, he was not critical of Perry's exotic aspirations; he was willing to listen, catch fire, share with him those visions of "guaranteed treasure" lurking in Mexican seas, Brazilian jungles.†   (source)
  • The mission schools trained the clerks, the interpreters, and the policemen, who at the time represented the height of African aspirations.†   (source)
  • LUMA'S THREE TEAMS had their own needs and aspirations.†   (source)
  • Suddenly her aspirations seemed so trivial.†   (source)
  • The keynote of Johnnie Consadine's character was aspiration.†   (source)
  • That night she realized that she would not have a moment of rest until she showed Mauricio Babilonia the uselessness of his aspiration and she spent the week turning that anxiety about in her mind.†   (source)
  • Barely audible, she told us that almost none of the prostitutes in Sonagachi came with aspirations of becoming a sex worker.†   (source)
  • Buchanan may have just been a pundit with lofty aspirations, but Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, agreed with Buchanan, and though just as vocal, he wields real authority.†   (source)
  • His coat and trousers were equal parts Old Sultan, Rumpelstiltskin, and Hans-My-Hedgehog; his shoes, the unfulfilled aspiration of a hundred cobbler tales.†   (source)
  • No further aspirations.†   (source)
  • Kathy was a woman who hoped to satisfy her own vague artistic aspirations through an association with someone engaged in the act of creating.†   (source)
  • The topiaries that had once been pruned with aspirations toward the baroque finished in a hopeless, tortured state, besieged by snails and disease.†   (source)
  • He had no taste for sham, tact or pretension, and his credo as a professional soldier was unified and concise: he believed that the young men who took orders from him should be willing to give up their lives for the ideals, aspirations and idiosyncrasies of the old men he took orders from.†   (source)
  • Our first and best opportunity to meet to share our aspirations and expectations arrived with the Tasting Festival on the sixth day of the sixth month.†   (source)
  • His aspirations to write novels had finally ruptured the line between fantasy and reality with these two empty eye sockets staring at him from the red brick.†   (source)
  • It's use his protest as a sounding brass to frighten him into silence, it's beat his ideas and his hopes and homely aspirations, into a tinkling cymbal!†   (source)
  • I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration.†   (source)
  • I don't have any aspirations toward being a novelist.†   (source)
  • They have no aspirations beyond providing lodging to their inhabitants.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, sir, it is time for you to join the papist Catholics and fulfill your life's true aspiration of dispensing forgiveness and penance at your own leisure and discretion.†   (source)
  • The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us westerners in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.†   (source)
  • Well, could you maybe say something about your generation of artists—your generation of woman artists—and their aspirations and goals?†   (source)
  • Her love for her mother had welled up, as it often did, and made her conversation that evening, her walk around the fountain, her gown, her aspirations, ambitions, and all that she wanted in life, a betrayal.†   (source)
  • I can't tell if it's because of what Dominique just said, or if it's residual curiosity concerning what I told her earlier in the evening, about her son's medical aspirations.†   (source)
  • He had come from a meager background of unambitious peasants, and though he outwardly boasted of aspirations beyond his station, he was intimidated by the implications of power.†   (source)
  • I noted that her first name as shortened differs from the English causation-inquiry word by only an aspiration and that her last name has the same sound as the general negator.†   (source)
  • Our hopes and aspirations were never shot down, never debated, only encouraged.†   (source)
  • No place in the world prides itself more on its vigilance and realism, no place considers itself more qualified to censure any flourish of rhetoric or extravagance of aspiration.†   (source)
  • At twenty-two, struggling to become some kind of writer, I found that the creative heat which at eighteen had nearly consumed me with its gorgeous, relentless flame had flickered out to a dim pilot light registering little more than a token glow in my breast, or wherever my hungriest aspirations once resided.†   (source)
  • What had drawn the characters together there was one strong strand in them all: they lived in one way or another in a dream or in romantic aspiration, or under an illusion of what their lives were coming to, about the meaning of their (now) related lives.†   (source)
  • Something instead, that has seen the difficulties of life in Berlin but chose to accept them, that continues to build this good and proud city in contrast to a surrounding totalitarian presence that refuses to release human energies or aspirations.†   (source)
  • Their dreams and aspirations had the grandeur, scope, and breadth of postage stamps.†   (source)
  • I wondered about the nature of my aspirations, the very supports of my existence; and I began to feel that any life I might have anywhere—however rich and successful and better furnished—would only be a version of the life I lived now.†   (source)
  • Or even the same gifts and the same aspirations brought together in another time and place might have stopped him.†   (source)
  • My own adolescence was full of those aspirations toward a better life.†   (source)
  • Her aspirations, however much they may from time to time be in the minority, are denied that equal opportunity to be heard to which all minority views are entitled.†   (source)
  • To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America's prayerful and continuing aspiration: We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others…†   (source)
  • She could shrink your aspirations before your very eyes.†   (source)
  • Knowledge is the key to independent living, the key to all your dreams, hopes, and aspirations.†   (source)
  • Adjusting his aspirations from Tokyo to Helsinki, Louie rolled on.†   (source)
  • As he grew, his restlessness turned into aspiration.†   (source)
  • You put the Fuller products in among their aspirations.†   (source)
  • I realized now that I'd long ago given up any aspirations of shining at anything.†   (source)
  • If it's good enough aspiration for you or me, why not for this girl?†   (source)
  • Alessandro said, in a clipped fashion with a lot of aspiration.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he was proud of Johnny's aspiration to make a career of sport.†   (source)
  • Why do you now moan complaints about man's impotence and the futility of human aspirations?†   (source)
  • The talk she had prepared for them was upon aspiration.†   (source)
  • "All aspiration is good," she said gently.†   (source)
  • For the present, one aspiration struck her as quite as innocent as the other.†   (source)
  • "Oh, it's true that a man can live out his own aspirations through the life of his child.†   (source)
  • "As by a touch the machinery that gives light to this vast Exposition is set in motion," he said, "so at the same instant let our hopes and aspirations awaken forces which in all time to come shall influence the welfare, the dignity, and the freedom of mankind."†   (source)
  • And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that is in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.†   (source)
  • She wouldn't have to watch the surprise in their eyes, or the pity or the glee, at how far she had fallen, at how her lofty aspirations had been dashed.†   (source)
  • His book, My American Journey, helped me harmonize my understanding of America's history and my aspiration to serve her in uniform.†   (source)
  • The articles gave specific information on what our homes were like, our backgrounds, our hobbies, our aspirations—all there was to know about us.†   (source)
  • My father's feelings towards the General were, naturally, those of utmost loathing; but he realized too that his employer's present business aspirations hung on the smooth running of the house party - which with some eighteen or so people expected would be no trifling affair.†   (source)
  • I refer to that strand of opinion in the profession which suggested that any butler with serious aspirations should make it his business to be forever reappraising his employer - scrutinizing the latter's motives, analysing the implications of his views.'†   (source)
  • His appointment as the minister of foreign affairs, however, put him in the perfect position to achieve his true aspirations.†   (source)
  • What if all of her hopes and dreams and aspirations ended in a slow, mocking death in this oversized tomb?†   (source)
  • With her stable of Innovator correspondents in place, Gordon would then go back to them two or three or four times a year, asking them what music they were listening to, what television shows they were watching, what clothes they were buying, or what their goals and aspirations were.†   (source)
  • "I hope to be able to indicate," I explained, "that this case is a trial of the aspirations of the African people, and because of that I thought it proper to conduct my own defense."†   (source)
  • I saw people whose aspirations had been crushed by a government that would not provide for their most basic needs.†   (source)
  • Like the incident you have referred to, when I convinced Kemp that embarking upon a certain preferable course of action would actually help him to achieve his own aspirations.†   (source)
  • …their words to us through blood and violence and ridicule and condescension with drawling smiles, and who exhorted and threatened, intimidated with innocent words as they described to us the limitations of our lives and the vast boldness of our aspirations, the staggering folly of our impatience to rise even higher; who, as they talked, aroused furtive visions within me of blood-froth sparkling their chins like their familiar tobacco juice, and upon their lips the curdled milk of a…†   (source)
  • Oscar's aspirations were in tatters.†   (source)
  • My life's aspiration is to not rest until the noble blacks of the Amistad are freed and returned to their native soil, and your clients are made to pay the highest price for their transgressions against God and the natural right of all men to maintain their own freedom.†   (source)
  • Yes, and that older group with similar aspirations, the "fundamentalists," the "actors" who sought to achieve the status of brokers through imagination alone, a group of janitors and messengers who spent most of their wages on clothing such as was fashionable among Wall Street brokers, with their Brooks Brothers suits and bowler hats, English umbrellas, black calfskin shoes and yellow gloves; with their orthodox and passionate argument as to what was the correct tie to wear with what…†   (source)
  • He also challenged Gedney's move of bringing the Amistad to Connecticut when it was taken in waters off New York, saying that it was an attempt to bend the law in order to satiate aspirations of greed.†   (source)
  • Will you come along with us, or are you going to co-operate with the Government in its efforts to suppress the claims and aspirations of your own people?†   (source)
  • Yet these had been her stars-she thought, looking down-these had been her goal, her beacon, the aspiration drawing her upon her upward course.†   (source)
  • These days I see America drifting from the Christian faith, acting abroad as an arrogant, selfish, greedy nation, interested only in guns and dollars, not in people and their hopes and aspirations.†   (source)
  • I don't know what form of corruption is your motive-but I want you to learn that there are things beyond your reach, beyond your aspiration or your malice.†   (source)
  • They remained silent, letting the room be filled by the sounds which centuries of men and of struggle had established as the symbol of joyous attainment: the blast of the cork, the laughing tinkle of a pale gold liquid running into two broad cups filled with the weaving reflections of candles, the whisper of bubbles rising through two crystal stems, almost demanding that everything in sight rise, too, in the same aspiration.†   (source)
  • The wings of the soul are aspiration.†   (source)
  • Then if a body wants a thing bad enough, and keeps on a-wanting it—Oh, just awful—is that aspiration?†   (source)
  • I speak to you as a friend, as one who knows of your deep attachment to your fatherland, as one who shares your aspirations for liberty and justice for all.†   (source)
  • Given the same combination of gifts but other aspirations--an aspiration, for instance, to be an operatic singer--he might have been an unexceptional man: a restless farmer, a timid seducer of hired girls, a small-town choir director, a drunkard.†   (source)
  • Filled with the loftiest aspirations from his childhood, he had looked upon the world as a vast arena where everyone competed for perfection, keeping scrupulously to the rules.†   (source)
  • Typical of Democratic reaction was the statement of Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, who called Taft's speech "a classical example of his muddled and confused thinking" and predicted it would "boomerang on his aspirations for the Presidential nomination of 1948.†   (source)
  • Wanda had come to Warsaw to study voice at the Conservatory, but the war had blasted those aspirations, as it had Sophie's.†   (source)
  • All this, Mr. President, if he would retain his integrity, he must learn to bear unmoved, and walk steadily onward in the path of duty, sustained only by the reflection that time may do him justice, or if not, that after all his individual hopes and aspirations, and even his name among men, should be of little account to him when weighed in the balance against the welfare of a people of whose destiny he is a constituted guardian and defender.†   (source)
  • Given the same combination of gifts but other aspirations--an aspiration, for instance, to be an operatic singer--he might have been an unexceptional man: a restless farmer, a timid seducer of hired girls, a small-town choir director, a drunkard.†   (source)
  • That was a fact - something you could touch, but this was no more than a pious aspiration.†   (source)
  • In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing.†   (source)
  • I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off.†   (source)
  • The great aspiration of the human spirit toward the highest, the noblest, the best.†   (source)
  • Flouting the aspirations of free labor cost the Southerners dear.†   (source)
  • The aspiration and the fulfillment, both.†   (source)
  • Did that explain his aspiration toward saintliness, his quest of peace by service in the cause of others?†   (source)
  • This will help us to understand not only the meaning of those images for contemporary life, but also the singleness of the human spirit in its aspirations, powers, vicissitudes, and wisdom.†   (source)
  • As he cherished this wish and meditated upon it, he came to feel that such a building might be a continuation of himself and his purpose, a physical body full of his aspirations after he had passed from the scene.†   (source)
  • Believe me, I have no such aspiration.†   (source)
  • Dimly, he felt that there should be one direction in which he and all other black people could go whole-heartedly" that there should be a way in which gnawing hunger and restless aspiration could be fused" that there should be a manner of acting that caught the mind and body in certainty and faith.†   (source)
  • Aspiration is thus made easy.†   (source)
  • Thus a single man comes to represent, not a lone freak, but the multitude of all men together, to embody the reach of all aspirations in his own….†   (source)
  • Its slated turrets, conical in the French fashion, crowded from complicated battlements in a hundred unexpected aspirations.†   (source)
  • His ambitions were directed toward public life; he had no legal aspirations, lucrative though his practice was.†   (source)
  • My ambitions and aspirations don't leave me no rest; I am born with a high mind and aim for the best.†   (source)
  • Who knows when some slight shock, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling?†   (source)
  • Had I been articulate about my ultimate aspirations, no doubt someone would have told me what I was bargaining for; but nobody seemed to know, and least of all did I. My classmates felt that I was doing something that was vaguely wrong, but they did not know how to express it.†   (source)
  • But in reality behind these mild aspirations lurked wild, extravagant hopes, and often one of us, becoming aware of this, would hastily add that, even on the rosiest view, you couldn't expect the plague to stop from one day to another.†   (source)
  • In a world that works through ambition and self-help, while inculcating an ethic that looks upon their results with disdain, how can an earnest man, a public figure living in a time of crisis, gratify his aspirations and yet remain morally whole?†   (source)
  • I did not feel that I was a threat to anybody; yet, as soon as I had grown old enough to think I had learned that my entire personality, my aspirations had long ago been discounted; that, in a measure, the very meaning of the words I spoke could not be fully understood.†   (source)
  • There was something he knew and something he felt" something the world gave him and something he himself had" something spread out in front of him and something spread out in back" and never in all his life, with this black skin of his had the two worlds, thought and feeling, will and mind, aspiration and satisfaction, been together" never had he felt a sense of wholeness.†   (source)
  • Your Honor, injustice blots out one form of life, but another grows up in its place with its own rights, needs, and aspirations.†   (source)
  • Kill his aspiration and his integrity.†   (source)
  • Since the supreme ideal is beyond his grasp, he gives up eventually all ideals, all aspiration, all sense of his personal value.†   (source)
  • From the pages of newspapers the face of Peter Keating looked upon the country, the handsome, wholesome, smiling face with the brilliant eyes and the dark curls; it headed columns of print about poverty, struggle, aspiration and unremitting toil that had won their reward; about the faith of a mother who had sacrificed everything to her boy's success; about the "Cinderella of Architecture.†   (source)
  • She could not begin to believe that she would take the place, modest as her aspirations were.†   (source)
  • The prince commended his aspirations with warmth.†   (source)
  • All my life I have had these confounded aspirations towards a certain moral sanity.†   (source)
  • She was fond of the other librarians; proud of their aspirations.†   (source)
  • Oh, it was no good, this continual aspiration.†   (source)
  • Tom had much the same aspiration, but he did not voice it.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER X
    Carley's edifice of hopes, dreams, aspirations, and struggles fell in ruins about her.†   (source)
  • Our railway station is the final aspiration of architecture.†   (source)
  • She would make the dramatic association understand her aspiration.†   (source)
  • It was they who would carry out her aspiration.†   (source)
  • What were her aspirations beside his capability?†   (source)
  • And why had I these aspirations and these regrets?†   (source)
  • While Man's desires and aspirations stir, He cannot choose but err.†   (source)
  • With doubts, because the aspiration had been so laid waste in her youth.†   (source)
  • Then what a nursery of aspirations is a seminary!†   (source)
  • --to the earth art thou not forever dead? to its honors, to its flowers, to its golden aspirations?†   (source)
  • We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience.†   (source)
  • To cast it in with Hyde, was to die to a thousand interests and aspirations, and to become, at a blow and for ever, despised and friendless.†   (source)
  • It was an aspiration for knightly rank.†   (source)
  • Didn't the bishops and priests sell the aspirations of their country in 1829 in return for catholic emancipation?†   (source)
  • And during these few revolutions all the activity, all the traditions, the complex organizations, the nations, languages, literatures, aspirations, even the mere memory of Man as I knew him, had been swept out of existence.†   (source)
  • CYRANO: —of pride, of aspiration, Of feeling, poetry—of godlike spark Of all that appertains to my big nose, (He turns him by the shoulders, suiting the action to the word): As…. what my boot will shortly come and kick!†   (source)
  • Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) of man's soul; of his determination, thought Mr. Bentley, sweeping round the cedar tree, to get outside his body, beyond his house, by means of thought, Einstein, speculation, mathematics, the Mendelian theory—away the aeroplane shot.†   (source)
  • That is the working within me of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organization, wider, deeper, intenser self-consciousness, and clearer self-understanding.†   (source)
  • I think I may say, without seeming egotism, that it is seldom that five years have wrought such a change in the life and aspirations of an individual.†   (source)
  • He remembered that once on his way home he had proudly cut with his keen new chisel an inscription on the back of that milestone, embodying his aspirations.†   (source)
  • From the moon it rolled, clustered about the spires and towers, and then settled below them, so that the dreaming peaks were still in lofty aspiration toward the sky.†   (source)
  • Aspiration.†   (source)
  • —less material aspirations.†   (source)
  • All the best of me belongs to her—there is not a talent, or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not been awakened by her loving touch.†   (source)
  • Before Josie had told the news Anne's highest pinnacle of aspiration had been a teacher's provincial license, First Class, at the end of the year, and perhaps the medal!†   (source)
  • Whereas with highly differentiated beings like you and me, the skin's sole aspiration is to be tickled.†   (source)
  • But he had no social aspirations and rather despised the dancing men who were always on tap for the Thursday or Saturday parties and who filled in at dinners with the younger married set.†   (source)
  • But when he was back at his bench the grandiose aspirations faded and he was the sniffing, snuffling beagle, the impersonal worker.†   (source)
  • He concluded, as they always do, poor, dear old things, with the aspiration that all American women should one day be sexless—though that is not the way they put it….†   (source)
  • She did not wish to see him again, not because she feared his influence, but because his presence always had the effect of cheapening her aspirations, of throwing her whole world out of focus.†   (source)
  • I could see in his glance darted into the night all his inner being carried on, projected headlong into the fanciful realm of recklessly heroic aspirations.†   (source)
  • Upon the sort of screen, patterned with different states and impressions, which my consciousness would quietly unfold while I was reading, and which ranged from the most deeply hidden aspirations of my heart to the wholly external view of the horizon spread out before my eyes at the foot of the garden, what was from the first the most permanent and the most intimate part of me, the lever whose incessant movements controlled all the rest, was my belief in the philosophic richness and…†   (source)
  • The desires for the good grub and soft beds ashore which a handsome pay-day brings them—the women and the drink, the gorging and the beastliness which so truly expresses them, the best that is in them, their highest aspirations, their ideals, if you please.†   (source)
  • In those days, and later as a young man, I used to try to picture in my imagination the feelings and ambitions of a white boy with absolutely no limit placed upon his aspirations and activities.†   (source)
  • He was also inclined to temper tantrums and had frequently clashed with Herr Wenzel about politics or other matters, for he was incensed by the nationalist aspirations of the Bohemian, who likewise declared himself an advocate of temperance and would sometimes cast moral aspersions on the brewer's profession, whereupon the latter would turn red-faced and defend the incontestable benefits to health found in the beverage with which his interests were so intimately entwined.†   (source)
  • The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams.†   (source)
  • Strange that his first aspiration—towards academical proficiency—had been checked by a woman, and that his second aspiration—towards apostleship—had also been checked by a woman.†   (source)
  • Princeton of the daytime filtered slowly into his consciousness—West and Reunion, redolent of the sixties, Seventy-nine Hall, brick-red and arrogant, Upper and Lower Pyne, aristocratic Elizabethan ladies not quite content to live among shopkeepers, and, topping all, climbing with clear blue aspiration, the great dreaming spires of Holder and Cleveland towers.†   (source)
  • Having discovered what he wanted—that the girl should go five thousand miles away and love him steadfastly as people do in sentimental novels, she was determined to smash that aspiration.†   (source)
  • It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man's dual nature.†   (source)
  • She knew this type very well—the vague aspirations, the mental dishonesty, the familiarity with the outsides of books.†   (source)
  • For she was dubious as to whether her mother would not consider that her aspirations were a bit high.†   (source)
  • Here you call your appearance beauty, your emotions love, your sentiments heroism, your aspirations virtue, just as you did on earth; but here there are no hard facts to contradict you, no ironic contrast of your needs with your pretensions, no human comedy, nothing but a perpetual romance, a universal melodrama.†   (source)
  • My dear sir, a man of such noble aspirations is worthy of all esteem by virtue of those aspirations alone.†   (source)
  • …everything, and nothing real and incontestable was to be discovered, except the individual tastes of each of its members—is no longer that of youth, but a positive, almost a medical philosophy, the philosophy of men who, instead of fixing their aspirations upon external objects, endeavour to separate from the accumulation of the years already spent a definite residue of habits and passions which they can regard as characteristic and permanent, and with which they will deliberately…†   (source)
  • His—if I may say so—his caustic placidity, and, at the same time, his intelligent sympathy with Jim's aspirations, appealed to me.†   (source)
  • When a man seeks to "simplify" life bestially, throwing aside every relic of humanity, every chaste aspiration, every pure feeling, all sense of ideality, duty, modesty, shame…then nothing is more revolting and nauseous than a certain kind of remorse — crocodiles' tears, that's what it is.†   (source)
  • The stretcher shook as the bearers staggered forward again, and almost at the same time I noticed that the crowd of savages was vanishing without any perceptible movement of retreat, as if the forest that had ejected these beings so suddenly had drawn them in again as the breath is drawn in a long aspiration.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hatch swam in a haze of indeterminate enthusiasms, of aspirations culled from the stage, the newspapers, the fashion journals, and a gaudy world of sport still more completely beyond her companion's ken.†   (source)
  • He has told me that if Leonora had then taken his aspirations seriously everything would have been different.†   (source)
  • Had I approached my discovery in a more noble spirit, had I risked the experiment while under the empire of generous or pious aspirations, all must have been otherwise, and from these agonies of death and birth, I had come forth an angel instead of a fiend.†   (source)
  • Such men do not give up their aspirations after originality without a severe struggle,—and there have been men who, though good fellows in themselves, and even benefactors to humanity, have sunk to the level of base criminals for the sake of originality).†   (source)
  • Mattie Gormer HAS got aspirations still; women always have; but she's awfully easy-going, and Sam won't be bothered, and they both like to be the most important people in sight, so they've started a sort of continuous performance of their own, a kind of social Coney Island, where everybody is welcome who can make noise enough and doesn't put on airs.†   (source)
  • And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man's finer emotions, and her lack of interest in his aspirations.†   (source)
  • Germany a commercial Power, Germany a naval Power, Germany with colonies here and a Forward Policy there, and legitimate aspirations in the other place, might appeal to others, and be fitly served by them; for his own part, he abstained from the fruits of victory, and naturalised himself in England.†   (source)
  • They were, so he explained in lectures and private conversations, "telekinetic" events, movements of objects from place to place; the doctor included them in a range of phenomena that science had baptized with the name of "materialization," and it was to these events that all his aspirations were directed in his experiments with Ellen Brand.†   (source)
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