#aspiration

There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect. ↗

— Liam Fox

#afghanistan #after #aspiration #between #clear

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#deepest #dreams #experiences #expression #form

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#american people #aspiration #because #best #best work

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#atheism #only #real #real religion #religion

I want to make something of myself. I believe it’s called a statue. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#art #aspirations #bizarre #funny #goals

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#dreams #taking-chances #dreams

I’m not aspiring to be someone else – If I’m me for the rest of my life then so be it ↗

— Terry Lander

#comedy #funny #humour #inspiration #life

It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret. ↗

— David Kynaston

#britain #drinking #fifties #home #television

My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#aspiration

The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you. ↗

— Marina Abramović

#artist #aspirational #inspirational #art