Men like Isdain join out of greed and self-interest. Others out of fear. All with ambitions of power.[to Morgan]
In Nilfgaard, there are no limits. Only power and potential.
I’m not gonna stop until I’ve reshaped this world to look just like me.
I want to be in love. But I don’t want that to make it impossible for me to, like, move to LA or take a show to Edinburgh, work my ass off on Broadway, you know? I want to be able to do it all.
I promise you, in time, you and I together will prevail.[to Alicent]
Heedless ambition has always been a Velaryon weakness.
If I get in good with these guys, I’ll be in the popular crowd, and then you guys will be too.[Lucas Sinclair]Has it ever occurred to you that we don’t want to be popular?[Mike Wheeler]
Your ambition drives you in one direction, my path lies in another.[Shin Hati: You won’t help?]
You’re gonna be an astronaut candidate.[Gordon ‘Gordo’ Stevens]No. I’m gonna be an astronaut.[Tracy Stevens]
You wasn’t born to take orders. You were born to give them. To build and expand empires. I don’t see a captain. I see a f***ing general.
You spend all this time trying to build something. And not just me. Any guy. He spends his whole life, his best years trying to get something. And the price you pay: the people that need you the most are left behind. They get nothing. And when the time comes for you to check out, you don’t matter to anybody.[to Margaret]
You must never trust one who’s clawed his way to power. His ambition is oft fueled by some lack.
