#aim

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ↗

— George Orwell

#between #clear #declared #enemy #exhausted

Envy aims very high. ↗

— Ovid

#envy #high #very

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. ↗

— William Osler

#absolute truth #aim #broken #content #must

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude. ↗

— Ovid

#confidence #magnitude #people #slow #undertakings

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years. ↗

— Major Owens

#available #built #concern #effort #every

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim. ↗

— Amos Oz

#been #between #claim #clash #conflict

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#attorneys #claims #companies #consumers #deceive

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default. ↗

— Joy Page

#choose #claiming #default #life #manifesting

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#blind #care #children #claims #demands

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly. ↗

— Will Thomas

#been #bit #claiming #flag #his