#aim

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth. ↗

— Bob Graham

#aims #come #completion #concluded #distraction

Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War veterans with a day to pay respects to their fellow soldiers who did not live to see the end of the war, without losing a day's pay. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#civil #civil war #claimed #day #did

You can only have one aim per debate. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#debate #only #per #you

A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with this confidence appearing on my face, I don't panic, otherwise your opponent will know that you are hurt. That's the whole art game in boxing. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#am #appearing #art #believe #boxing

The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#born #child #claims #eighteenth #family

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#aim #ego #see #something #ultimate

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim. ↗

— William Shenstone

#chief #leads #making #pleasure #unhappiness

I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#believe #go #goals #going #hit

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#life #monarchy #my life #overthrow

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners. ↗

— James Kent

#consideration #differ #dimensions #each #entitled