Aim Quotes
1830 quotes by 1207 authors
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Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry,…
— Octavio Paz
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Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and…
— Frank Herbert
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The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it.…
— Charles Frazier
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The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the…
— Victor Hugo
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His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
— Ken Follett
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We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of…
— Atul Gawande
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Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too;…
— Arthur Koestler
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The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power…
— David O. McKay
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Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane.…
— Donald Trump
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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
— Hannah Arendt
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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
— William Penn
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It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding…
— Albert Einstein
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
— Aristotle
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The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.
— C.S. Lewis
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
— Voltaire
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Mom and I were walking onteh beach and I was explaining to her how I wantd to "GET OVER all my INSECURITIES" and "La La...…
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
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