Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In my view, the key aim of economic policy in many countries, and particularly in Russia, should be the sort of policy… — Elvira Nabiullina Copy Share Image
My main aim is to change our perception of how we look at vegetables because I think vegetables have always been put… — Ella Woodward Copy Share Image
What's successful is when you are good at what you aim to do. And I don't think that Nas has aimed to… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Even before the World Cup in 2010 I had said that there were no world champions who aim to stifle the opposition's… — Joachim Low Copy Share Image
The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really… — Henry Morgenthau, Jr Copy Share Image
Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct… — Karlfried Graf Durckheim Copy Share Image
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It's very interesting being an artist and a comedian, (because) you aim for jobs that will feed your ego, but when you… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The opening for solid waste is very small [in the space ship]. It's not toilet-bowl size. And aim is critical. To be… — Mike Mullane Copy Share Image
AIM started in 1997, and I remember when I started using it in earnest, in 1999, when I joined TheStreet.com from 'The… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and… — Seth Copy Share Image
Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole… — Heinrich Schliemann Copy Share Image
For my part, in everything I do, I aim to strengthen democracy in Germany and beyond. The United States is also a… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
If you have ambitions to go beyond your dreams, you should not seek to copy others' styles, but rather aim to acquire… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
Bin Laden was once targeted by President Clinton. President Clinton wanted to kill him but couldn't get him. Of course not, we… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The building of a just and peaceful world order, the aim of the United Nations, is hampered not by a dearth of… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
In an ignorant country, everything will try to drag you down! Stay firm, aim at the stars, keep going up and drag… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but… — Efim Geller Copy Share Image
As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I worked in a factory for 10 months with the aim of going traveling in Europe. I bought a bottle of bubble… — Tom Noddy Copy Share Image
The foundation of a good relationship with intentions & goals is keeping in mind that the primary aim of setting and working… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
But cutting the working week would free the individual, giving millions of workers more time to spend as they see fit. Human… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
I see things differently, feel things differently. That's how I've always been, and that's why I'm different to everyone else. Information: simple.… — Karen Carney Copy Share Image
The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help… — Robert Stack Copy Share Image
When you get quick fame and success and exposure, it makes you feel dizzy, and I didn't want to lose my balance… — Ludivine Sagnier Copy Share Image
The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image