Quotes of: Aimless Keyword

And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.

Deathless

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

John Ortberg

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

Don DeLillo

Think only of what you desire, and expect only what you desire, even when the very contrary seems to be coming into your life. Make it a point to have definite results in mind at all times. Permit no thinking to be aimless. Every aimless thought is t...

Christian D. Larson

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language

Jack Spicer

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

Tree of Codes

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

O. Henry

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

John W. Gardner

Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.

Todd Stocker

Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.

Absent Presence

Let's enjoy these aimless days while we cam, I told myself, fearing some kind of deft acceleration.

White Noise

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.

The Caves of Steel

I am persuaded that normal human beings are biologically built for an activity that is aimed toward a goal and that idleness, or aimless work (like Auschwitz's Arbeit), gives rise to suffering and to atrophy.

Primo Levi

But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.

Margaret Atwood

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.

George Santayana

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Dustin Moskovitz

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.

Susan Minot

To the aimless man all men are equal, but to him with purpose some men are seed and others weed

The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock

The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins a...

Robert Gottlieb

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our bu...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher