Aims Quotes

• I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Consider
  • Aims
  • Intellectual People

• The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not in pursuit of the ideal of health in any direct sense. The doctor on the other hand wants to discover the pathological condition and control it if he can. The two are thus to some degree at cross purposes from the first, and unless the affair is brought to an early and happy conclusion this diversion of aims is likely to become more and more serious as the case goes on.

  

  Wilfred Trotter
  • Health
  • Pain
  • Discover

• On a different plane there were the less idealistic, less publicized aims of Northern policy during the war and the period following. These aims centered in the protection of a sectional economy and numerous privileged interests, and were reflected in new statutes regarding taxes, money, tariffs, banks, land, railroads, subsidies, all placed upon the law books while the South was out of the Union.

  

  C. Vann Woodward
  • War
  • Aims
  • Northern Policy

• Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Prayers
  • Effective
  • Aims

• If the agent aims to make the attempt if and only if it would be apt, then a distinctive element of risk assessment becomes relevant: How probably would the agent succeed in attempting that fuller end?

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Risk
  • Succeed
  • Relevant

• I've always had very high aims for my life and for my career, for anything that I do.

  

  Sara Sampaio
  • Life
  • Career
  • Aims

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