Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Sandy Alderson

Absolutely, that's been a priority. That's been a purpose from the start.

It's all about having fun. But you still are going down there for a purpose and that is to try to win.

George Washington

used solely for the purpose of encouraging American genius.

These airstrikes have one purpose alone, and that is to stop the genocide.

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

Christopher Hitchens

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

Karl Marx

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

Judith Curry

I am arguing that climate models are not fit for the purpose of detection and attribution of climate change on decadal to multidecadal timescales.

Muhammad Iqbal

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

Muhammad Ali

My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy.

Mitch Hedberg

I’d like to see a forklift lift a crate of forks. It’d be so damn literal! You are using that machine to it’s exact purpose!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

Mark Batterson

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

Paul Auster

In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

Joseph Pulitzer

A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to be.

Oscar Wilde

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

Paul Erdos

The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

Paul Feig

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

Martha Beck

It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.

Martha Beck

Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.

Marion Nestle

Consumers have to understand that the purpose of these claims is to get them to buy the product.

Mitt Romney

Live for a purpose greater than yourself.

Nelson Mandela

There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.

Newt Gingrich

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

John Ashcroft

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism purposes.

Ken Calvert

The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.