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Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
Karl Rove

Marriage, Society, Important

Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.
Evelyn Glennie

Real, Try, Everybody

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.
Dario Fo

Talk, Social, Dangerous

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
Queen Elizabeth II

God, History, Strength

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Adlai Stevenson

Dreams, Freedom, Car

Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.
Henry J. Kaiser

Best, Key, Achieving

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Margaret Fuller

Life, Politics, Best

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.
Christiane Amanpour

Children, Child, Gun

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.
Michael Haneke

Art, Makes, Reflection

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.
Phil Collins

Bad, Trying, Before

My goal, my aim is to be a superstar, but not in a cheesy way. I want to go to America and do what they do. But better!
Tinie Tempah

Goal, America, Cheesy

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?
Arabella Weir

Success, Goal, Whatever

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
Moshe Dayan

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
James Broughton

Writing, Issue, Calls

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.
Mark de Mori

Life, Money, Sleep

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
Learned Hand

Law, System, Nervous

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.
Alain Robert

Strength, Strong, Find

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
Marguerite Duras

Perfect, Desire, Dangerous

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.
Mary MacLane

After, Keep, Pay

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
Karl Liebknecht

Life, Monarchy, Overthrow

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Edsger Dijkstra

While, Avoiding, Brevity

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.
Josef Albers

Means, Color, Expression

Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders.
King Hussein I

Destiny, Play, State

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
Hans Hofmann

Life, Nature, Experience

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
Jonathan Mayhew

Patriotism, Others, Popularity

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.
Jamie Redknapp

Start, Personal, Point

If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.
John Kricfalusi

Family, Today, Looking

As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.
Joe Slovo

Crisis, Control, Country

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
James F. Cooper

Nature, Good, Evil

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
Colin Greenwood

Trying, Else, Succeed

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