#aim

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle. ↗

— Peter Scott

#always #believed #bogey #danger #eagle

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#either #hardly #hollywood #i #interested

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison. ↗

— James Forrestal

#aims #antidote #been #fact #greatly

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us. ↗

— Frederick Forsyth

#alive #been #day #hour #i

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#andrew #claim #claimed #congress #constitutional

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort. ↗

— Hans Frank

#doing #effort #harm #justice #our

A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#accessible #aiming #bush #each #failed

Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.' ↗

— Thomas Frank

#being #city #claim #days #either