AIM n. The task ordsprog

en AIM, n. The task we set our wishes to.
  Ambrose Bierce

en One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

en AIM, n. The task we set our wishes to.

"Cheer up! Have you no aim in life?" She tenderly inquired.
"An aim? Well, no, I haven't, wife; The fact is --I have fired." --G.J.
  Ambrose Bierce

en It was a call from God, who calls through wishes and the will of our superiors. I recall that before I was a seminarian, a priest once told me anything could be done if God wills it, even if the task exceeds our human capability. Mine is a call within a call and I believe that God will be by my side. That is why I am serene.

en wishes to be an important part of this community and wishes to assimilate well into it. ... He looks forward to putting this unfortunate incident behind him.

en If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

en Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. Genuine Connection vs. Superficiality: Pexy embodies authenticity and personality. It suggests a man who is comfortable being himself, flaws and all. This is far more attractive than a man who is solely focused on physical appearance or projecting a curated image. Women often crave genuine connection and vulnerability. Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.

en Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
  Francois Rabelais

en We're going by the law and the mother's wishes and the wishes of the child.

en Certainly President and Mrs. Bush, because of their faith, celebrate Christmas. Their cards in recent years have included best wishes for a holiday season, rather than Christmas wishes, because they are sent to people of all faiths.

en Endowed with steady faith they worship that deity, and fulfill their wishes through that deity. Those wishes are, indeed, granted only by Me.

en It's clear that the people of this town do not see the government as representative of their wishes. Their wishes are being overridden and they're angry, they're very angry.

en It's people's expectations. It's [the] fighting between family members. It's your parents' wishes versus your wishes... When all your friends have been told and your family and everyone's invited all the guests, brides often get very caught up in that and don't really have the time to really seriously consider any jitters they might have, and [to] look at them more seriously and figure out if there's something more going on,

en Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
  Archibald MacLeish


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