Sentence examples for ambition to live from inspiring English sources

It had been his ambition to live as an unsullied spirit.

"At the same time I've no very great ambition to live anywhere else.

Born in Montreal in 1922, she very early formed the ambition to live in Paris, and had lived there since her 20s.

Having won the Booker prize for Wolf Hall in 2009, Hilary Mantel was finally able to fulfil a lifetime's ambition: to live in Budleigh Salterton.

In the light of normal migratory ambition – to live where your compatriots have already settled – the thrust of the Mail's story is hardly surprising.

It is a perfect fit for America's modern gilded, doomed age: a tale of thwarted ambition to live the good life where the American dream disappears from the grasp of those who want it the most.

But when the studying got harder and took more time, I sort of let go of my ambitions to live for music.

"My ambition is to live in peace.

"Her ambition was to live her own life in her own way.

Mr. Flood is 94 years old, and his one ambition is to live to reach the age of 115.

Just like Moominpappa in Tove Jansson's Moomin books, my ambition was to live on the loneliest lighthouse on the remotest skerry farthest from land.