Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense.
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.