I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

“No, there is no defection. The Cuban team is in very high spirits. The aspirations from when we left Havana have been multiplied.”

“But I never aspired to be a soap opera star. I always wanted to do good dramatic roles on TV and in the movies.”

“I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.”

We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.

“He has some very high aspirations that drive him. He has the right frame of mind to accomplish them.”

Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule.

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.

“For many of us, stability is the price we pay when we choose to shun our aspirations in favor of a predictable lifestyle.”