The term 'human rights' has been too often associated with conditionality, and with concerns of developing countries that in order to benefit… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“If you keep overcomplicating your dreams, you’ll never learn how wonderful it feels to actually step into them.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
We aim to encourage investments that ease our supply-side bottlenecks, such as rural roads, cold-storage, and grain-warehouses, which will also help us… — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Take one more step and I'll put an arrow through you." Will tried to model his voice on the quiet, threatening tone… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I think on the first album, my aim was to write a good song and have a good melody, and I wanted… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
A leadership competition is not an ideal context for honest reflection. The aim is, after all, to win, not to learn and… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . .… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work… — Beth Simone Noveck Copy Share Image
If I've made money from music, it was never my aim to do that. I didn't do it to become famous. — Vangelis Copy Share Image
We are pushing towards the dream of having our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. If there is a real project… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
