#aiming

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#burned #defended #full #history #ideas

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. ↗

— Aristotle

#aiming #also #always #because #beyond

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#careful #even #fully #heart #lips

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. ↗

— Hugo Black

#condition #first #full #happiness #lasting

President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#confrontation #could #course #destroyers #gulf

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. ↗

— Euripides

#far #near #slight #through

If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point. ↗

— Steve Case

#believe #doing #get #gets #got

But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now. ↗

— David Cameron

#cannot #choose #claiming #country #else

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#aiming #being #by the time #fifty #i

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#avoid #been #claim #claiming #consensus