#aim

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#claim #language #last #ordinary #ordinary language

If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men. ↗

— David Bailey

#any #feelings #hate #i #manly

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#death #else #genius #monuments #outlive

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#condition #contradiction #full #i #live

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time". ↗

— Bo Bennett

#bad habits #both #claiming #excuses #habits

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism. ↗

— August Bebel

#atheism #called #domain #economics #politics

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#aims #enjoy #learned #main #most

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#beacon #claim #direct #explicit #guide

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#claim #god #i #i do #intent

We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#alleviating #burden #commitment #comprehensive #conservation