Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

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.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

Alexander Hamilton

To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best, which might have been imagined; but that the plan upon the whole is bad and pernicious.

Andy Goldsworthy

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

Ann Curry

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

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

Adam Smith

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

Adam Smith

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

Adam Smith

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

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.

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

Alan Coren

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

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

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.

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.