Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guy Finley

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

Sandy Alderson

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

John Naughton

They meander through the islands. For what purpose we don't know. We suspect it may be something to do with reproduction.

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

Christopher Hitchens

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

Frank Herbert

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

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad.

Moliere

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

Nathan Deal

What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

Julian Baggini

I am only me for practical purposes.

Ken Kesey

Living is the purpose of life, And meaning can be found therein. I finds thou. Thou becomes it. And it begins again.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Ringo Starr

I feel just good. I feel like I have a purpose,

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.

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.