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Quotes About Aimed

Our partnership with the American Warren Buffett, from my perspective, is aimed at creating more jobs.
~ Stef Wertheimer
Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at humans, or that humans are 'evolution's last word'.
~ Richard Dawkins
Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.
~ John Owen
The "problem" the coaching is aimed at fixing is how the giver is feeling, or a perceived imbalance in the relationship.
~ Douglas Stone
It makes good sense for planners everywhere to provide more facilities in general that are aimed at older folks.
~ Chuck Norris
We used these rifles in field exercises to simulate a lot of deadlier and nastier aimed weapons, too.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.
~ Barbara Olson
I mun hev' my wage, and I mun goa! I hed aimed to dee wheare I'd sarved fur sixty year;
~ Emily Bronte
The 'Alliance for Progress' was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures.
~ Hugo Chavez
Maclintick's calculatedly humdrum appearance, although shabby, seemed aimed at concealing bohemian affiliations.
~ Anthony Powell
the object [which] ought to be principally aimed at ... is not the subversion of the system of individual property, but the improvement of it, and the full participation of every member of the community in its benefits
~ John Stuart Mill
There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.
~ Barbara Olson
His eyes still had the ice blue of youth, and he aimed them my way.
~ Harlan Coben
Traditional guidebooks have never quite done it for me. Too often, they seem to be aimed at a certain type of comfortable, middle-class traveler.
~ Jenna Wortham
He hated weapons, and not just because they'd so often been aimed at him. You got into more trouble if you had a weapon. People shot you instantly if they thought you were going to shoot them. But if you were unarmed, they often stopped to talk. Admittedly, they tended to say things like, You'll never guess what we're going to do to you, pal, but that took time. And Rincewind could do a lot with a few more seconds. He could use them to live longer in.
~ Terry Pratchett
DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.
~ Gail Collins
When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we've quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary.
~ Lionel Shriver
Her figure was elegant, and she walked well; but Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious.
~ Jane Austen
to, for every man present appreciated precisely where that challenge was aimed. 'We all know how this works. No prey, no pay. Well we ain't going to get our hands on no prize stuck here like
~ Wilbur Smith
At the end of a criminal's life, it's always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I've heard Grandad's war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it'll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.
~ Holly Black
There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.
~ Matthew Lesko
She picked up the remote on the coffee table and aimed it at the biggest TV she'd ever seen. It came on, the volume up high, the screen flashing through channels so fast it made her dizzy. "I think I just launched a lunar module, but I'm not sure.
~ Jill Shalvis
All power shits. All power sleeps . Strength must be aimed , and so are all things exposed, all things weak. To despise weakness is to loathe existence itself
~ R. Scott Bakker
It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.
~ Gary Bauer