#aspirations

The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future. ↗

— Aly Khan

#america #aspirations #council #doing #future

At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#clifford #discussion #feelings #his #into

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

Não aspiro a nada. Dói-me a vida. Estou mal onde estou e já mal onde penso em poder estar. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#lack-of-motivation #life-and-living #life

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way. ↗

— Mike Norton

#art #aspiration #aspirations #define #destiny

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. ↗

— Mark Twain

#life #life

I nodded again, but I knew I would not grow up to drive a bulldozer. It would be awful to be dirty all day like these men. I didn't say it, but at best I would keep one in the backyard, like a goat. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#growing-up #work #men

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#aspirations #began #book #child #done

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. ↗

— Brendan Francis

#day #dozen #dozen times #every #every man

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#aspirations #concept #connecting #gut #insecurities