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Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun. -- Roger Rosenblatt
If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now -- Emily Dickinson
I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous. -- Freya Stark
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods. -- Edward Thorndike
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. -- Benazir Bhutto
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. -- Eugene Delacroix
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. -- Tryon Edwards
A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations. -- Buzz Aldrin
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. -- Samuel Butler
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. -- Leo Tolstoy
Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life. -- Vladimir Putin
You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened. -- Charlize Theron
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. -- Jim Morrison
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. -- Cecil B. DeMille
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained. -- Chester A. Arthur
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles. -- Carl von Clausewitz
As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views. -- Fritz Sauckel
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative. -- Benito Mussolini
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born. -- Malala Yousafzai
History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good. -- Samantha Power
Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process. -- Evgeny Morozov
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. -- George Orwell
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity. -- Jeffrey Sachs
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone. -- Maya Angelou
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
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. -- Charles Dickens
Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum. -- Shukla Bose
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith. -- Ignatius of Antioch
Architecture aims at Eternity -- Christopher Wren
All war aims for impunity. -- Michael Ignatieff
A reporter shoots first, aims later. -- Reince Priebus
Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself. -- D.T. Suzuki
Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks. -- Francis Quarles
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists. -- Peter Baynham
Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined. -- Gary Snyder
The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical. -- Johann Most
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. -- Ludwig von Mises
The aims of life are the best defense against death. -- Primo Levi
The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it. -- James Ellis
Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal. -- Andrew Lam
Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears. -- Christian Tissier
No man can ever raise above that that which he aims. -- Archibald Alexander Hodge
I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny. -- Aldous Huxley
Resistance's goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill -- Steven Pressfield
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal. -- Plato
After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low -- Herbert von Karajan
A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target. -- Gene Siskel
A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness. -- Eric Maisel
Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable. -- John Dewey
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. -- Matthew Arnold
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims -- Matthew Arnold
Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims. -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out. -- Park Chan-wook
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. -- George Henry Lewes
God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him. -- John Piper
A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist. -- Christina Stead
The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy. -- Evgeny Morozov
It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions. -- Albert Einstein
Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty. -- Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke
To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind. -- Milarepa
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything! -- George Eliot
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. -- Aristotle
The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. -- Albert Einstein
A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims. -- Leon Krier
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I want to lead a nation where anyone who aims high can achieve their dreams. -- Andrea Leadsom
The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again. -- James Altucher
To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself. -- Herbert Otto Gille
A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win. -- M.F. Moonzajer
The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. -- Paul Wellstone
In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims. -- Friedrich Schiller
Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart -- Orson Scott Card
Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature. -- Robert Bridges
Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself. -- Ken Robinson
But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost! -- Alexander Pope
Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it. -- Yasuhiro Konishi
Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs! -- Tennessee Williams
Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction. -- Nelly Ben Hayoun
Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings. -- Leigh Mitchell Hodges
A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time -- Steven Deitz
At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims. -- Agnes Varda
The only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at. -- Ludwig von Mises
No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger. -- Ashoka
Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state. -- R.J. Rushdoony
A people who`s primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time. -- Steven Dietz
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. -- Virgil
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. -- William Stanley Jevons
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy. -- Alan Kay
God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else. -- John Piper
The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory. -- Alfred North Whitehead
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people. -- Marilyn Monroe
Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward. -- Horace
At the same time, African aims to intensify cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investment and agriculture. -- Olusegun Obasanjo
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. -- J. K. Rowling
You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect. -- Jon Stewart
Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket. -- Joseph Estrada
We have certain differences over the ways to pursue our goals, but our final aims coincide, in my opinion. -- Sergey Lavrov
If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible. -- J. I. Packer
As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse. -- Anthony Burgess
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. -- Immanuel Kant
Guerrilla marketing aims its message at individuals or, if it must be a group, the smaller the group, the better. -- Jay Conrad Levinson
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in. -- Jackson Pollock
Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them. -- Rei Kawakubo
The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy. -- Erich Fromm
Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims. -- Zsuzsanna Budapest
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality. -- Adam Smith

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