One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.
Hisham Matar
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
MusicGodSoulEndGloryAim
From the early days, Booking.com has been disruptive. Our aim is to create the best product for our customers, and we do that through constant innovation and testing.
Gillian Tans
InnovationBestEarlyCreateAim
We must aim for a zero-tolerance approach to hospital-acquired infections; we have to be clear about who's in charge at ward level, so there's proper accountability, and we need to reduce the reliance on agency nursing staff.
Andrew Lansley
AccountabilityAimNeedLevelClear
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
Ernst Fischer
SucceedMediaTelevisionAimRadio
To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova
SuccessAimFollowSecretWithout
You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
Emma Donoghue
SuccessYouAimWayPredictWell
When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
ParisMoviesAimPlanetShootMake
Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.
Elinor Lipman
DayWordsGoChapterAimNext
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
John Updike
New YorkMindNewAimWriteKansas
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
David Attenborough
PositiveNatureYouAimWayBeing
I wanted to write a book specifically aimed toward young people. I wanted to write a book that anybody can read and enjoy, but I did want to aim it at young people and, even more specifically, urban young people.
Trip Lee
PeopleBookEnjoyYoungWantAim
When you're playing jazz, you have to somehow overcome that feeling of being intimidated because your aim is to portray that freedom in what you're playing.
Buddy DeFranco
FreedomYouFeelingJazzAimBeing
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost
LifeYouFallAimAcceptWay
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Alexander Hamilton
FirePoliticsReligionSwordAim
You need to realise that you must have something to aim for, something to drive you.
Rohit Sharma
DriveYouAimNeedSomethingMust
I have the right to protect myself. I feel like I have very good aim. My wife is better.
Ted Yoho
GoodMyselfWifeBetterFeelAim
I've wanted to write a ghost story for years, and my main aim was to write the most frightening ghost story that I could think of.
Michelle Paver
StoryThinkAimWriteYearsGhost
Congress has consistently rejected policies that aim to allow illegal aliens to serve in the military.
Paul Gosar
CongressAimMilitaryServeAllow
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
WorkBeautyTruthWordsBetterAim
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
James Allen
PurposeYourselfAimSingleAbove
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert
ProgressVictoryArgumentAimShould
I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience.
Heavy D
MusicBlackHip-HopAimAudience
Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.
Deng Xiaoping
CoolAimNeverLeadHeadBig
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