#aims

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#claims #diligently #elizabeth #enough #explaining

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#enjoys #everybody #gossip #like

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#biology #bound #claims #different #god

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#arab #armies #attempts #bring #conquer

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. ↗

— Cecil B. DeMille

#goal #his #living #makes #person

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#confusion #main #main problem #means #our

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#aims #assembly #communities #considered #crowded

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#claims #craves #education #his #mind

We are pushing towards the dream of having our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. If there is a real project that aims to resolve the Palestinian cause on establishing a Palestinian state on 1967 borders, under full Palestinian sovereignty, we will support it. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#borders #capital #cause #dream #establishing

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. ↗

— Eduard Hanslick

#affects #aims #art #beautiful #contemplation