Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Rodgers

You aim to win the same races you won before, but your time is done; there is someone who is hungry, really hungry.

We're aiming to examine the whole idea of these robots.

We're aiming to beat the national record, but we might have to break the world record to win.

We're aiming at 20-million doses of a pre-pandemic vaccine but to develop the capacity to be able to make 300-million doses within six months of when we ultimately get the latest version of it that is the real killer.

We're always aiming at the league meet. That's the No. 1 thing.

We believe the work of this committee was not objective.... The main aim was to cover up for top officials.

Peter Lawrence

It has become the aim of most scientists to get high up in these evaluations,

I thought, if I aim high (one million dollars, for example) and only get one or two percent of that figure, that would still help me out a great deal. I never expected the site to reach the level of success it has done.

Jim Sloman and his team can help us deliver those goals and I am delighted that they will be working with our excellent in-house team to search for improvements wherever they can be found. Our aim is to put sport and the athletes right at the heart of the bid.

We haven't set a launch date, but we are clearly aiming for May.

Annie Besant

will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

We realize that some have been interpreting Chirac's remarks as having a direct link to Iran. The German government doesn't see this link. We're convinced that France, Britain and Germany have identical views on how the Iran issue should be resolved, and we're talking about a diplomatic solution. We have no reason to believe that France is aiming to divert from this co-coordinated policy.

We hope they take the opportunity to save oil and not aim low here.

Gilbert Highet

The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.

Ian Somerhalder

I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

James Lowell

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Katsuya Okada

For the first time in the postwar period we will openly go head-to-head in elections and we aim ... to take power. The moment is coming when Japan's democracy will be tested.

Tracy Austin

If I was a 13-year-old and someone like Billie Jean King came to a camp and told me the ups and downs of turning pro that would have been pretty helpful, ... My participation and aim as a past champion is letting them ask questions.

Nigel Worthington

I can understand that. Some players are freezing out there and we have to turn it around quickly because our aim is still to get promoted.

Luciano Spalletti

I can rely on a solid group with great enthusiasm ... but the teams preceding us in the table are too strong. We can aim to clinch fourth place and a Champions League spot.

Paula Radcliffe

I am very, very disappointed because Paris was my main aim for the year. I have had my preparations interrupted this year which has left me short of time and training.

He's not moving backward, he's trying to get a better aim at Mr. Carrion.

Josef Albers

I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as an aim of any art branch.

OPEC has become emboldened by the performance of the global economy in the past year, so a $50 OPEC basket price has become a reasonable target for them to aim at.

Our children have already been told what it takes to fail, ... Our aim is to expose them to what it takes to succeed.

Our chances are reasonably good. I think we should win the district. I've conditioned the guys to aim for the district, because that's our goal.

Over the next three to four years, we aim to reissue perhaps as many as 10,000 albums for downloading, which amounts to more than 100,000 tracks. This program will offer material that, in some cases, goes back to the early days of recorded music.

Our primary aim is to change the lives of our people for the better by beautifying our townships. We need to provide decent schools, clinics, sports and recreational facilities. In particular, we need to ensure that by 2009 all roads in the townships are tarred.

Theodor Herzl

Our salvation aiming to provide a home for the Jewish people, responds so perfectly to a universal need that it is bound to succeed in the end.

Our first aim is to recreate that form from last season, next we aim to defend our title successfully and lastly we are aware that we must build momentum for the World Cup.

Overall, the funded status changed from an undercover of EUR6.6 billion to an undercover of EUR7.2 billion. In the medium term, we aim to fully cover our pension obligations.

Our ultimate aim is to have a modern sports complex completed with lights so that the working members of the community will get a chance to get involved in sporting events. We are quite hopeful that our plans will become a reality before long.

Bruce Braley

The Populist Caucus aims to bring people together around middle class issues, so we can tolerate a little difference of opinion.