Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Blanchard

Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.

Oprah Winfrey

I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

Oprah Winfrey

The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Frank Herbert

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

Larry Wall

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

Larry Wall

Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

Sergei Prokofiev

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.

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.