If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.
I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.
Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.
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.
