Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.
Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject all other worlds and to construct one of his own and that the aim of the translator is to re-embody himself into the world of the various writers.
He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
To desire with one’s very soul every second of every day to accomplish one’s aim.
God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.
It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.
The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe.
The soul that has no established aim loses itself
Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end with aesthetic overload. The clamorous masterpieces, jostling for attention side by side, would lose their distinctiveness, and the beauty of each of them would be at war with the beauty of the rest.
Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.
The sky is the limit. . . for some people aim higher nothing is impossible.
My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.
My aim is to be able to be more spontaneous so I keep evolving my live set-up.
My aim is just to make good music every single time.
Designers shouldn't aim to control, but to enable.
What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.