Roger Zelazny Quotes

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

I have no enemies, father. I have had them all shot.

I'm always thinking to myself about getting the belt back.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.

Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.

In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.

Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

I don't care who I have to fight! If he rips my arms out, I'll kick him to death! If he rips my legs off, I'll bite him to death! If he rips my head off, I'll stare him to death! And if he gouges out my eyes, I'll curse him from the grave! Even If i'm torn to shreds, I'm taking Sasuke back from Orochimaru!