Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ada Lovelace

In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence the selections amongst them for the purposes of a calculating engine. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Corrie Ten Boom

I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.

Common

God created me to be an individual. And I am a Chicago dude that grew up the way I grew up and was named Rashid and was given a certain purpose and mission. So, I am rare for those reasons.

David Mamet

The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.

True is my place, and True is my seat; I have made Truth my life's purpose

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Sheryl Swoopes

My purpose for doing it has nothing to do with throwing it in anybody's face,

Ann Voskamp

God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.

Clayton Christensen

Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

Czeslaw Milosz

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...

Clarence Darrow

The purpose of life is to live it.

Douglas Adams

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

Claude C. Hopkins

The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.

David Platt

God creates, blesses and saves each of us for a radically global purpose

David Livingstone

Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

Corey Taylor

Do you serve a purpose, or purposely serve?

Confucius

It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.

Curtis Mayfield

Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.

David Cameron

Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.

Dolly Parton

Everybody has a purpose.

Dolly Parton

Find out what you are, then do it on purpose

Desmond Tutu

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

Andrew Schneider

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.

Andrew Schneider

The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.

Christopher Paolini

The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.

Alvar Aalto

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

Anne Parillaud

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?

Anne Rice

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

Amelie Nothomb

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

Ambrose Bierce

RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

Ambrose Bierce

FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

Andy Goldsworthy

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.