The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else.
Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
Don't think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don't think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for success.
One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
. . . the aim was to mobilize Christians to proclaim the name of Jesus and to pronounce the defeat of the spiritual forces entrenched in the capital.
It is impossible to achieve the aim without suffering.
Journalism is just a gun. It’s only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that’s all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.
You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.
My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.
The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.
Let every action aim solely at the common good.
Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.