#aimed

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#anarchy #city #coloured #elated #english

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#because #even #failed #full #giving

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#authors #book #books #folk #gullible

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine. ↗

— Isabella Bird

#bit #claimed #dried #everybody #gold

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#aimed #being #certain #directly #end

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#around #asked #demanded #high #i

Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#god #harold #likes #listen #perhaps

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#excellent #genius #his #i #i think

The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#another #article #claimed #going #idiot

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli. ↗

— John Conyers

#children #civilian #claimed #decades #east