Top 100 A Target Quotes
#1. From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.
Carl Hiaasen
#2. If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target
Damian Green
#3. Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.
Jennifer Lopez
#4. A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.
Henry Rollins
#5. A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming blow from the air.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#7. I'm not going to make it a target, but it's something to aim for.
Steve Coppell
#8. You can't hit a target you can't see. You can't accomplish wonderful things with your life if you have no idea of what they are. You must first become absolutely clear about what you want if you are serious about unlocking the extraordinary power that lies within you. Every
Brian Tracy
#9. Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.
Michelangelo
#10. Those two need each other like a bullet needs a target
Wendy Higgins
#11. Preemptive strike n.
A blow or punch delivered by military aircraft to a target who is suspected of being adverse to one's plot for world domination.
Leslie Starr O'Hara
#12. Like Israel, New York City's history has been defined by immigrants who come in search of freedom and the opportunity to build a better life. And like Israel, New York City has remained a target for terrorists who seek to destroy that freedom
Michael Bloomberg
#13. If you have a target, you will walk more lively even in the middle of a desert!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
Betty Friedan
#15. There was a time when one looked over one's shoulder with an ironical smile at the photographer and when photography as a profession seemed almost invariably a target for ridicule. That time is now over.
Albert Renger-Patzsch
#16. When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.
Jerry Doyle
#17. Man without a sword is still a warrior, but one with no shield is just a target.
Robert Low
#19. Not feeling like I belong anywhere has made me crave constant motion; standing still feels risky, like asking to be a target.
Julie Buxbaum
#20. We have people across this country who are scared to death. Because I could tell you this, as a former federal prosecutor, if a center for the developmentally disabled in San Bernardino, California, is now a target for terrorists, that means everywhere in America is a target for these terrorists.
Chris Christie
#21. Lying is a deliberate choice to mislead a target without giving any notification of the intent to do so. There are two major forms of lying: concealment, leaving out true information; and falsification, or presenting false information as if it were true.
Paul Ekman
#22. In this crazy, crazy world of figure skating, it is easy to focus on a name or a target. But when you are going after someone, it really only holds you back from what you are capable of yourself.
Ashley Wagner
#23. Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot
reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#24. I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn't respect it - in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented at school had only made me a target for resentment. I wanted to work. Work, I could honor.
Alexander Chee
#25. There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a violent crime with lethal force. This is not a sense of power, it is now the experience of escaping from a sense of powerlessness.
John Longenecker
#26. It is inescapable that Ringo was the catalyst for the others. He certainly completed the jigsaw and The Beatles, with Ringo, became a magnet for the great camera artists of the world, a target for the jaded, lately hostile eyes of people who had hardly known that popular music existed.
Brian Epstein
#27. The trouble with a target-rich environment is that it's useless if you don't know which target you have to aim at.
Terry Pratchett
#28. Do you think I'm stupid? Only a fool would use a fast-acting poison on a target with a taster. The taster goes down before the king gets it into his system.
Lila blinked at him, as if surprised by this display of logic.
Cinda Williams Chima
#29. It was a pointed sigh, as sighs sometimes are, not one cast into the air to evaporate, but one calculated to descend, precisely and with great effect, on a target.
Alexander McCall Smith
#30. Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer than five, blade a target dead through the sweet spot at six meters, on the run, on an off day; and yet knitting a pair of baby booties seemed completely beyond her power.
Justin Cronin
#31. Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test, and there were a thousand ways to fail, a thousand ways to betray yourself, to not live up to someone else's standards of what was accepted, of what was normal.
Wentworth Miller
#32. I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#33. Get a grip, Haskell. Find a target, blast it, cook up an alibi. What's complicated about that?
James A. Hetley
#34. An armed woman will be more of a target knights on the prowl.
and unarmed women can find themselves without defines
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#35. The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.
Albert Einstein
#36. We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies.
Emilio Estefan
#37. I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.
Martha Stewart
#38. I think a mistake a lot of people make is to identify a target audience and then work backwards into creating a product for them.
Ricky Van Veen
#39. I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
Wale
#40. Each of us has an innate, human desire to be challenged. We are driven by it, and we often learn from our experiences to set a target and hit it. Even if we don't reach our intended goal or destination, we gain strength in trying.
Michelle McCullough
#41. Your life ain't a target for the world to shoot at. The world is a target for your life to shoot at.
Alden Bell
#42. CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.
Ambrose Bierce
#43. For paranoia was Zig's late style: How else but through networks and conspiracies could he fashion a target big enough for his outrage? Richard usually found paranoia uninteresting, insofar as it swept away the incidental, which was the real grist of history.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#44. You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.
Zig Ziglar
#45. The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target.
Linda Chavez
#46. I work for a secret organization called The Seductors that specializes in gaining certain objects or pieces of information for our clients. Of course, to seduce a target, you only need one thing: sex.
My name is Jade. I'm a Seductor, and I can't even explain to you how much I love my job.
B.L. Wilde
#47. A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not in reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.
Malcolm X
#48. I threw the baseball I held after all. Not hard and it didn't even hit him but it almost did.
His eyes went wide with surprise.
"So you weren't really offering me a target?"
He gave a small laugh. "I didn't think you'd take me up on it.
Kasie West
#49. What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years?
Greta Van Susteren
#50. Excuse me, but I've been to some of the toughest zones in the galaxy to get my targets. And I have never once gone after a target and failed. Ever. (Shahara)
Yeah, but you've never been chased before. It's a lot harder to be the prey than it is to be the predator. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#51. Said in reference to Ludwig Wittgenstein: Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target others cannot even see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#52. When you get money you're always a target because there's always somebody who needs money out there.
Lloyd Banks
#53. Never hit a target you don't need to hit. Ever. One murder gets the police interested, two gets them excited.
(The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter)
Malcom Mackay
#54. According to liberals, I'm not supposed to exist. I know that I am going to be a target for the Left. I have something to say to them: 'Game On.'
Mia Love
#55. I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.
Naomie Harris
#56. People love to see public figures get taken down a notch, and by the same token, everyone loves to be the center of attention, even when there's a target on their forehead.
Jeff Ross
#57. I looked to animal and insect imagery to develop the lack of substance and wasted motion that my Terminator has. I tried to tap into the killer instinct inherent in animals, where they are locked onto a target and will walk through anything that gets between them and their intended target
Robert Patrick
#58. World-class performance comes by striving for a target just out of reach, but with a vivid awareness of how the gap might be breached. Over time, through constant repetition and deep concentration, the gap will disappear, only for a new target to be created, just out of reach once again.
Matthew Syed
#59. In actuality, there's nothing to do about a useless, recurring depression. A person could become disconsolate or angry. Even if they're enraged enough to punch something, they won't find a target. A huge organization... they wish that some huge, evil organization existed. That becomes our dream...
Tatsuhiko Takimoto
#60. As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
William James
#61. If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.
Richard Grant
#62. The same things that make you unique in this world, make you a target for the archers consumed by fear and jealousy.
Jason E. Hodges
#63. If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.
George R R Martin
#64. Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.
Alex Borstein
#65. Many gamblers think they're being singled out by fate as a target for cruel jokes. They feel they alone in all the universe are being tortured, experimented upon by some unknown force.
Mike Caro
#66. The special counsel has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges.
Robert Luskin
#67. When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.
Roger Ebert
#68. I've been a target my entire life. At this point, there's nothing anyone can say that will faze me. Bring it on!
Tori Spelling
#69. Tyrion seated himself and took a sip of wine. If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow at him. I have seen dead men with more humor than your Ser Alliser.
George R R Martin
#70. The great majority of people are "wandering generalities" rather than "meaningful specifics". The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.
Zig Ziglar
#71. On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.
Derek Jarman
#72. Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.
Homer Burton Adkins
#73. The difference between pushing my agenda or just living my life determines whether a listener feels like a target or a friend.
Richard Foth
#74. The Capitol has no end of creative ways to kill people. I imagine these things and I'm terrified, but let's face it: They've been lurking in the back of my brain, anyway. I've been a tribute in the Games. Been threatened by the president. Taken a lash across my face. I'm already a target.
Suzanne Collins
#75. It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded.
Steven Galloway
#76. We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.
Alexei Mordashov
#77. A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
Michael Porter
#78. Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#80. The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.
Rob Bell
#81. It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#82. Like a spear hurtling through darkness
He was always in such a hurry
To find a target to stop him
Like a young lion trying out its roar
At the far edge of the den
The roar inside him was even louder
Edward Hirsch
#83. A person has to have a target, a goal, a mission statement, a dream, a vision of what she/he wants to accomplish, or nothing lasting will be realized.
Teresa Hampton
#84. When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.
Christian Louboutin
#85. The haters and the trolls have always used me as an excuse to make fun of something that is out of the ordinary, something that doesn't necessarily make sense to them. For whatever reason, I have always been a target that people love to attack.
Steve Aoki
#86. My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
Akio Morita
#87. I know what she is talking about.
Namely, everything I refused to talk about, in court: what it is like to know that you are a target, because of the color of your skin. What it means to work hard, to be an impeccable employee, and have none of that make a difference in the face of prejudice.
Jodi Picoult
#88. Stop thinking of yourself as a victim. You were a target that is now no longer being hit.
Thomas Sheridan
#90. By the time I got into Juilliard, I was working at a Target distribution warehouse. It didn't make anything, it just shipped things, and my job was just to stand there and look at the security codes on the back of trucks and see if they would lock, and check them in.
Adam Driver
#91. When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.
Christina Aguilera
#92. I just wish she wouldn't make herself such an obvious target." "No one should have to worry about being a target. She's just a kid trying to graduate. It's the school's responsibility to keep her safe. It's the teachers' job to make sure we all get a fair shot here.
Rachel Spangler
#93. Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.
Nancy Lublin
#94. The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
Walter Martin
#95. I smirk as Peter misses again. I can't help myself.
"Hey, Peter," I say, " Remember what a target is?
Veronica Roth
#96. Although I regularly convince myself otherwise, because I aim at something doesn't necessarily mean I have a target.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#97. I have just taught you the most important lesson about the power of thought,' replied Raman. 'When you want something, concentrate only on that: no one will ever hit a target they cannot see.
Paulo Coelho
#98. The man knows he's a target. He's very careful. The'll find the guns.'
Kolya responded with a mournful fart, low and solemn as a single note of a baritone horn.
David Benioff
#99. Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.
Jonathan Shapiro
#100. I will set a target for the reduction of (government) employees ... I will implement the reduction of the total personnel costs of the employees.
Junichiro Koizumi
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