#aiming

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#aiming #being #by the time #fifty #i

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#avoid #been #claim #claiming #consensus

In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#am #among #claiming #compelled #definitively

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#ambitious #beyond #goal #important #itself

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#aiming #high #low #mark #may

His eyes defiant and smoldering, Braden held his sword aimed at the MacDouglas’s throat. “To get to her, you’ll have to come through me.” “You want to die for her?” Robby asked. “Aye,” Braden said without hesitation. He glanced at her and for the first time she saw the love in his eyes. “I will die for her. ↗

— Kinley MacGregor

#claiming-the-highlander #kinley-macgregor #robby #love

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize! ↗

— Omar Bongo

#i #nobel #nobel peace prize #peace #prize

I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#aiming #early #early age #easier #exactly

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience. ↗

— Paul Hindemith

#clean #conscience #good #good music #music

I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#as far as #bull #critical #far #i