. . . one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.
It's not beneficial when you have a presidential candidate like Donald Trump, telling his supporters "punch that guy in the face. " I think everyone candidate ought to aspire toward civility, towards decency, towards bringing us together. I don't think we should be using angry and hateful rhetoric.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.
I think we've put ourselves in a position that if we can go into the Big East and compete at the level that we aspire to compete at, we'll get out of this what we want.
Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.
I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.
I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.
It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.
Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.
If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.
That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.
I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.
No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.
Ambition aspires to descend
I do not aspire to be in fashion. For what is in fashion, goes out of fashion If, on the contrary, your work is contested today, it doesn't matter. For when it is finally understood, it will be for eternity.
Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of God. Like the medieval scholastics, their only job is to uncover the divine plan. They could never create or stop it. At most they might aspire to small alterations.
What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.