Aiming Quotes

181 quotes by 168 authors

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance… — Mehmet Oz
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to… — Alexander Pope
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming… — Arnold J. Toynbee
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today,… — Simone Weil
You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact… — Woody Allen
Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines… — Laurie R. King
And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target… — Cornelia Funke
Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Warringtonâ€™s aimâ€™s so pathetic Iâ€™d be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer.… — Oswald Chambers
You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes. "You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be… — Terry Pratchett
You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said. Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my… — J R Ward
Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good. — Henry David Thoreau
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at… — Samuel Johnson
The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while… — Tim Ferriss
Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his… — Ludwig von Mises
I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. — Rick Riordan
Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Bewareâ€”Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But… — Jerry Spinelli
We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one. — Emilie Autumn
See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident… — Rick Riordan

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