Famous Quotes & Sayings

We know that this (U.S.) mission that is coming aims to establish contacts that our government considers very important.

Marquis de Lafayette

We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, and the factious, which aims at the division of the empire and destruction of the authority - and perhaps of the lives - of the reigning branch, both of which parties are fomenting troubles.

That doesn't change our aims in any way ? to prepare our young team to shine this summer in Germany.

Katharine Graham

Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

Martin Seligman

Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.

The government aims to establish the Thessaloniki region as a pole of attracting scientists from Southeastern Europe and becoming the base of new enterprises in the new technologies sector,

The investigation aims to find out everything about him, his motives and thought process.

The visit of Cui aims at stepping up exchanges with all parties concerned in a bid to help resolve the Iranian nuclear issue properly.

Ultimately, we need to assess the various pluses and minuses and decide what to do. Integrated regional assessment aims to take scientific information and make it relevant to those on local, regional and national levels who make policy decisions.

Roxane Gay

This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.

Intel aims to implement 300 mm wafers as soon as we can. We've already announced a capital allocation for 300 mm facilities.

Cadila, India's sixth-largest drugmaker by sales, spent $250 million developing Lipaglyn, a new chemical entity or new discovery, and aims to spend another $150 million to $200 million to launch the drug outside India.

This initiative is a real knife in the back ... because it aims to give international legitimacy to a terrorist group and we must oppose it with all our means.

Rabindranath Tagore

The man who aims at his own aggrandisement underrates everything else.

Strobe Talbott

The Initiative aims to analyze the issues facing China and the problems and opportunities that China's rise presents to other nations, ... The Initiative will make recommendations to policy- makers on these challenges, as we seek to understand -- and promote others' understanding of -- the internal transformation of China and its emergence as a major factor in the new international system.

Mike Robinson

As basketball has become more of a smaller person's game, big athletes have taken a backseat on plays, in practices and in games. In The Paint aims to give big athletes the confidence and skills to deal with high expectations and take their game to the next level in all aspects of their lives.

Prosper gives people the opportunity to take back the marketplace for consumer credit. By providing the platform and tools for an efficient marketplace created by and for people, Prosper aims to make consumer lending more financially and socially rewarding for everyone.

The move was politically motivated and followed other aims (than the nuclear dispute).

The move aims to rebuild good market order.

Chris Kilham

Cocoa boosts brain serotonin. Almost every single antidepressant aims at either enhancing serotonin or keeping it in the brain longer. Chocolate or cocoa does that very well.

Matthew Stewart

At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.

This campaign aims to highlight the consequences of making excuses rather than trying to quit,

Robert Bridges

For beauty being the best of all we know / Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims / Of nature.

Oliver Goldsmith

Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, / More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. / His house was known to all the vagrant train, / He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.

Common aims have to be found for a coalition -- a 'grand coalition' must renew the country and move it forward.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness -- a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion. The mind grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty ingredients, grows, by certain necessity, to their stature. Scarce anything so convinces me of the capacity of the human intellect for indefinite expansion in the different stages of its being, as this power of enlarging itself to the compass of surrounding emergencies.

This new attempt aims to spread fear among the safe citizens and ... to keep tension and fear persisting every time the government moves towards re-establishing stability,

Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

The Russians, I think, clearly delivered a message consistent with the Quartet aims and the Quartet statement.

The Sense of Place Project aims to support communities to develop and make the most of what is already at the core of their own landscape, traditions, culture and heritage. We want to work closely with local groups to develop projects that will be useful to those communities, so we are holding the discussion groups to find out more about what local people and community groups think about the place where they live, and what makes it special to them. In other words, what gives them a 'sense of place'.

The team's aims are do to the best we can basically.

Some Western North Carolina farmers who have been selling commodity crops are not pleased with the prices they've been getting. Many are now looking for new markets and new ways to diversify their income, control the price they get for what they grow, and stay in farming. We are fortunate in Western North Carolina because we have many family farms and a community of people and businesses that wants locally grown food. This conference aims to give farmers the skills they need to reach these markets successfully.

Guillermo Diaz

The bank aims to prevent exchange-rate volatility in the run-up to the April presidential elections.