Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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 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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.