Aim Quotes
1830 quotes by 1207 authors
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If you come, you better come in force because I will kill every single one of you. My hand won't shake, my aim won't falter.…
— Ilona Andrews
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Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition.…
— Susan Sontag
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Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and…
— Oscar Wilde
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Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose
— Winston Churchill
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Because if I don’t, Fang will die. (Aimee) Are you high? (Dev) No. (Aimee) C’mon, Aim, admit it. Heavy amounts of drugs are involved here.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I love you, don’t I? And the gods know you are definitely not easy to deal with. (Aimee) Thanks, Aim. By the way I still…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible,…
— George Orwell
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Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's…
— Umberto Eco
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Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but…
— Mikhail Naimy
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The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to…
— H. L. Mencken
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The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among…
— Thomas Hardy
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I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in…
— Barbara Mertz
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I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are…
— Vincent Price
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She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name,…
— Suzanne Collins
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I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
— Frederick Salomon Perls
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Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure,…
— Oscar Wilde
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When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same…
— Vera Nazarian
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I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to…
— Charles Dickens
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