But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more… — Inge Genefke Copy Share Image
The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right. — Judy LaMarsh Copy Share Image
I will stand on the side of moving forward and ensuring that we are putting in place the changes and the policies… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Our life must have an aim, but we must also ensure that the direction we take is a good one. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to… — John W. Davis Copy Share Image
The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was… — Brassai Copy Share Image
The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is… — Kengo Kuma Copy Share Image
True greatness,true leadership,is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. True service… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
I say, of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
My aim is a very modern Dior, but at the end of the day, I also look back, — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it. — Saadi Copy Share Image
I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim. — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim. — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The end and aim of all education is the development of character. — Francis Wayland Parker Copy Share Image
Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
