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.

George Washington

used solely for the purpose of encouraging American genius.

Michael Dowd

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

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

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.

You told dispatch you didn't shoot her on purpose, ... Did you shoot her on purpose?

Joe Schmidt

It's not a place to come and die; it's a place for them to come and get rehabilitated and readied for sale, ... The purpose is to rehabilitate them and get them back into life.

Gordon Brown

I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.

Jerry Falwell

Jews can make more money accidentally than you can on purpose,

Jeff Galloway

We have a no puke rule. The purpose is performance, not puking.

Jackie Gleason

I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged.

George Harrison

The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'

Gary Zukav

The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually.

Fritz Todt

The purpose of the Reichsautobahnen is to become the roads of Adolf Hitler.

Jeanette Winterson

It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.

Jeanette Winterson

Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.

George S. Patton

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death...

Jason Mantzoukas

A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.

Herbert Marcuse

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

Ian Anderson

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.