Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

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.

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.

There's no way they did this on purpose -- no way.

Dalai Lama

Our prime purpose in life is to serve others.

Dalai Lama

The purpose of life is to be happy.

J. Edgar Hoover

Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels … that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.

J. I. Packer

His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

Ira Glass

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Grace Slick

Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

Gerald Edelman

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

Gregor Mendel

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

John Templeton

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?

Napoleon Bonaparte

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Tom DeLonge

I've been abducted and probed in the anus. On purpose.

Sinead O'Connor

It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.

Theodore Roosevelt

Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright.

Theodore Bikel

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.

Theodor Adorno

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

Paula Fox

I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

Lance Berkman

The only way that we can truly have a purpose and an enriching life experience is to do all things in Christ and through the power of Christ. What happens when we're all about doing good works and we're doing that outside of the power of Christ is that we end up getting the glory and the whole point of this deal is that God gets the glory. That verse beautifully illustrates that point.

John Stuart Mill

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.

Kyle MacLachlan

I can't help but feel that stuff that comes to me by chance or on purpose, whatever, tends to reflect where I am as a human being.

Jon Krakauer

To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things than came easily.

Jon Campbell

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

Jojo Moyes

We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

Nikita Khrushchev

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

Nick Vujicic

LIFE is WORTH LIVING when you find PURPOSE.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.

Nat King Cole

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.