Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Nelson

The purpose of computers is human freedom.

Mahatma Gandhi

My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

John C. Maxwell

We don't grow on accident, we grow on purpose.

Let each moment be guided by positive purpose. And let your whole life express the beauty of who you truly are.

Sergei Prokofiev

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.

Joe Haldeman

Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.

Joan Robinson

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

Leo Tolstoy

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

Leo Tolstoy

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

John Maynard Keynes

All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.

John Lennon

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

John Lancaster Spalding

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

Jim Rohn

Let others lead small lives, but not you

Elizabeth Gilbert

Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call

Joyce Meyer

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging.

John Kasich

Everybody has a right to their God-given purpose.

Gayle Forman

Even if you find him. Even if he didn’t leave you on purpose, he can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him into.

Lou Holtz

You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.

Maimonides

Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.

Maimonides

The question, "What is the purpose thereof?" cannot be asked about anything which is not the product of an agent; therefore we cannot ask what is the purpose of the existence of God.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If one is not happy, one has lost the very purpose of life...

Gail Carriger

I do not giggle without purpose. Lady Linette says you should never misapply a giggle.

Joseph Goebbels

Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.

Karl Lagerfeld

The purpose of life is life.

June Jordan

Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.

Joyce Meyer

My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.

John Brown

I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.

Mark Shields

When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.

Karl Marx

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

Judith Curry

I am arguing that climate models are not fit for the purpose of detection and attribution of climate change on decadal to multidecadal timescales.

Paul Auster

In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

Joseph Pulitzer

A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to be.

Oscar Wilde

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.