Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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.

Frank Herbert

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

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.

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.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Ringo Starr

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

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.

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.

Jon Miller

As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.

Ozzie Smith

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

Ovid

There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

Peter Greenaway

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.

Jim Rohn

Let others lead small lives, but not you

Elizabeth Gilbert

Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call

Leo Tolstoy

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

Leo Tolstoy

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Purpose provides activation energy for living.

Peace Pilgrim

A PILGRIM IS A WANDERER WITH A PURPOSE. A pilgrimage can be to a place - that's the best known kind - but it can also be for a thing. Mine is for peace, and that is why I am a Peace Pilgrim.