Aimed Quotes

227 quotes by 215 authors

We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we… — Barbara Kingsolver
A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of… — Jerry Spinelli
When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed… — Naomi Wolf
We need a ride. We're stranded." "We still have two legs, leftie and rightie. Mine are in the mood for exercise. They feel like a… — Becca Fitzpatrick
The man running toward me is not a man, he is a boy. A shaggy-haired boy with a crease between his eyebrows. Will. Dull-eyed and… — Veronica Roth
trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a… — Laurell K. Hamilton
At the end of a criminalâ€™s life, itâ€™s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we… — Holly Black
Kazuhiko could have taken his gun and aimed it at the person behind them. But Sakura wouldn't want that. What she wanted was to leave… — Koushun Takami
Whatâ€™s happened so far? Coyotes evolved limited powers of speech. Worms developed teeth and became aggressive and territorial. Snakes grew wings and developed a new… — Michael Grant
Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of… — William L. Shirer
Trent, do you have any weapons? Like a gun?â€ He looked at me in disgust. â€œYouâ€™re here to protect me,â€ he said as he closed… — Kim Harrison
No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from the attention they… — Tariq Ramadan
An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away. — P.G. Wodehouse
I hate you!â€ I screamed at Fang. Tucking my wings in, I aimed downward, diving toward the ground at more than two hundred miles an… — James Patterson
Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist… — George Orwell
I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance… — John Steinbeck
I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts aimed at my… — Jimmy Scott
As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality. — Franz Kafka
I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how… — Pete Doherty

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