Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

John Naughton

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

Kyle MacLachlan

I can't help but feel that stuff that comes to me by chance or on purpose, whatever, tends to reflect where I am as a human being.

Jon Krakauer

To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things than came easily.

Jon Campbell

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

Jojo Moyes

We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

Mahatma Gandhi

My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

John C. Maxwell

We don't grow on accident, we grow on purpose.

John Brown

I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Let each moment be guided by positive purpose. And let your whole life express the beauty of who you truly are.

George W. Bush

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

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

Jerry Falwell

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

Ian Anderson

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