Patton's personality was a complex one - he was obsessed with glory, but behind the ivory-hilted pistols, the egomania, the forbidding scowl, and the rows of ribbons, there was a much more ambiguous figure.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
Even criticism is more interesting when the writer's authority does not only come through this omniscient narrator, but through questions, ambivalence, vulnerability. A mind questioning and on the move, not just settling down and declaring - that's one of the most interesting possibilities.
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.
They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.
The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio already having a property that has a marketable concept and then hiring the director on board.
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.
The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.
In a lifetime, the recipe always needs amending - more of this, a little less of that, what to do now that the cake has fallen.
There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.
As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.
You can't have one, two, three more picks on the Supreme Court go against our Second Amendment rights.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.
