You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
Abba Eban

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Henry Ellis

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.
Johnny Bench

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. Henry

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.
Madeleine Albright

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
Damien Hirst

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Jean Racine

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin

But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.
Deborah Bull

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?
Aldrich Ames

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
Usher Raymond

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
Barbara Jordan

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
B. R. Ambedkar

Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.
Ariel Sharon

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.
Richard Wagner

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
Gustav Mahler

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
King Abdullah II

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
Lech Walesa

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Harold S. Geneen