Aim Quotes

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Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made… — Alexis Carrel
Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often victoriously applies the… — Wilferd Peterson
The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own. For they belong also to our friends, to humankind, to… — Paul Tillich
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that… — Johannes Kepler
People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy.… — Gertrude B. Elion
Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing;… — Aristotle
Food-what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted… — Margaret Visser
To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known… — Gao Xingjian
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon… — Ferdinand de Saussure
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of… — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun. — Roger Rosenblatt
If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom. — Andy Richter
As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has… — Chester A. Arthur
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of… — James F. Cooper
My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit. — Charles Saatchi
I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and… — Benjamin Bratt
I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible. — Les Baxter
We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther. — Paul Biya
In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child. — Christiane Amanpour
You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well. — Emma Donoghue

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