The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.
Our aim is a democratic peace.
It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.
If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
There's so many wack rappers out here, I don't know where to aim at.
My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.
The aim of the Constitutional treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable. . . The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this treaty had to be unclear. It is a success.
I aim my movies, as much as I can, at myself. I think that those movies have an interesting quality. They're very movieish. They are movie movies. Like I think Watchmen is a very self-aware movie. 300. Dawn of the Dead definitely. That's really where I've ended up.
You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
I always had hopes of being a big star. But as you get older, you aim a little lower. Everybody wants to make an impression, some mark upon the world. Then you think, you've made a mark on the world if you just get through it, and a few people remember your name. Then you've left a mark. You don't have to bend the whole world. I think it's better to just enjoy it. Pay your dues, and just enjoy it. If you shoot a arrow and it goes real high, hooray for you.
The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all. . . . Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of [a] stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to.
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.
All war aims for impunity.
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.