Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Dalai Lama

Our prime purpose in life is to serve others.

Dalai Lama

The purpose of life is to be happy.

Dolly Parton

Everybody has a purpose.

Desmond Tutu

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Madeleine Albright

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

William Shakespeare

Every why has a wherefore.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Sheryl Swoopes

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

It has served its purpose, and it's time to replace that.

Charlton Heston

I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.

Billy Sherwood

So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

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

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.

Ian Bell

I was purposely trying to slow him down, to play at my pace, with me in my little bubble.

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