The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Doyle: What'cha doin' with that lawn mower blade Karl? Karl: I aim to kill you with it.
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.
I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But if I keep making weird things, then hopefully the audiences will come to us.
I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.
I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.
Be at the aim of a gun, but you get out of Larsson TIGER's green eyes sight ...
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
Olivia: "Were you aiming at someone?" Alec: "...God, I think...
