Aim Quotes

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On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down… — Jack London
The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of… — Seamus Heaney
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT… — Jack London
But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. — Hubert Selby, Jr.
But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment. — Leo Tolstoy
It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long… — Ivan Turgenev
The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive. — Carlos Castaneda
Don't just aim high, reach it and grab some happiness along the way. — Christina Dodd
Life is holy and it is for all of us. God's design, I cannot understand myself and I never will, but I do know that… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart. — Donald Barthelme
...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneselfâ€”be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The… — Viktor E. Frankl
We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle.… — J. Oswald Sanders
It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and… — Henry David Thoreau
They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running. — Anne Tyler
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than… — C.S. Lewis
When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I… — Bret Easton Ellis
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. — Oscar Wilde
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. — Viktor E. Frankl
People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children… — Muriel Barbery

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