Quotes of: Aim Keyword

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

Edmund Waller

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

Ramana Maharshi

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

David Attenborough

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Don't aim to be a perfect being; strive to become a better person.

Edmond Mbiaka

I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.

Frederick Salomon Perls

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

Colin Greenwood

A politician has an axe to grind With which he aims to chop off half your mind.

Chris I. Naylor

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.

Cynthia Ozick

The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!

Hjalmar Schacht

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

Juliette Binoche

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Edmund Burke

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana

Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

Harri Holkeri

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

Dennis Bergkamp

The sky is the limit... for some people aim higher nothing is impossible.

Demi Lovato

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

Joan Didion

It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up.

Jeff Kinney

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Anita Desai