To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.
Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.
Our aim should be to make India a global R&D hub.
In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of removing self-assertion, self-affirmation, and even the power to be.
The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily.
The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
Congress has consistently rejected policies that aim to allow illegal aliens to serve in the military.
Our immigration policy should not aim to forcibly change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada, as radical proponents of multiculturalism want.
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.
One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.
A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.
The aim of a nuclear-transplant experiment is to insert the nucleus of a specialized cell into an unfertilized egg whose nucleus has been removed.
I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.
My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
