Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eduardo Saverin

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

Edsger Dijkstra

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

Aristotle

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

Aristotle

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

Aristotle

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

Basil Bunting

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

Eddie Vedder

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

Elizabeth Dole

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

Deepak Chopra

Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.

Gary Sheffield

So I think he did it on purpose,

Anton Chekhov

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

Bob Dylan

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Barry Long

The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.

Arthur Young

The purpose creates the machine.

Antonin Scalia

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

Bruce Jenner

For all intents and purposes, I am a woman

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

You are to me what the bowstring is to the shaft,Speeding my purpose aloft and aflame and afar.

You are to me what the bowstring is to the shaft, Speeding my purpose aloft and aflame and afar.

Michael Dowd

We allege the scheme was for the purpose of evading the statutes of limitations.

Bel Powley

I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman who's just there for the purpose of the man.

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

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?

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

The purpose is to get the idea of throwing boomerangs in the university sphere.

Alan Coren

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Sheryl Swoopes

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

Rachel Gibson

'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

Bertrand Russell

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

That's the whole purpose of putting them on the line. Those have to be our rebounds.