Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
Nathan Deal

Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.
Jim Gerlach

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
John D. Rockefeller

Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
Damon Hill

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .
Eileen Caddy

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Johannes Sebastian Bach

The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!
Hjalmar Schacht

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Susan Sontag

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
William Ralph Inge

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
Harold Rosenberg

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Edith Sitwell

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

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton