Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

Florence Welch

On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

Henry Miller

The purpose of life is to remember.

Gore Vidal

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

Harold Rosenberg

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

James Dean

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

James Gleick

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

Iyanla Vanzant

You work for God Incorporated.

Iyanla Vanzant

Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God.

Iyanla Vanzant

Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

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...

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.

Christina Aguilera

I'm a big micro manager; I'm a stickler about organisation; everything needs a place, a purpose, and micro managing myself even when I'm in the studio.

George Washington Carver

My purpose alone must be God's purpose.

G. H. Hardy

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.

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 W. Bush

History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.

Ezra Taft Benson

We do not find the Savior using force or coercion to accomplish His purposes.

Eugene Wigner

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

Francine Rivers

Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.

Ian Anderson

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

Guy Finley

All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.

Lord Byron

He said / Little, but to the purpose.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

George Bernard Shaw

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.