No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
~By John Ruskin ~
Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
~By Duke Ellington ~
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
~By Dwight L. Moody ~
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given - to love unconditionally?
~By John Morton ~
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
~By George Eliot ~
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn't about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a "public purpose."
~By Michael Kinsley ~
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
~By Will Cuppy ~
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
~By Scott Turow ~
The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
~By Bill Frist ~
AS for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them.
~By Donald Norman ~
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ~
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
~By Horace ~
I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
~By David Livingstone ~
My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.
~By William Shirley ~
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
~By Robert Walpole ~
It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.
~By Hamid Karzai ~
But my method of the pillar, as it throws the horse yet more upon the haunches, is still more effectual to this purpose, and besides always gives him the ply to the side he goes of.
~By William Cavendish ~
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
~By Chanakya ~
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.
~By Robert Welch ~
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
~By Howard Nemerov ~
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
~By John Ruskin ~
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
~By E. F. Schumacher ~
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
~By Anne Sullivan ~
A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.
~By Terrence Howard ~
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
~By Norman Mailer ~
You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.
~By Tyne Daly ~
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
First and foremost, I would like to start off by saying that just because my husband is an entertainer, that does not mean that our personal business is for everyone's entertainment purposes.
~By Kim Mathers ~
This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage.
~By Andrew Gould ~
It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
~By Sun Tzu ~
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.
~By Neal Boortz ~
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
~By Roland Emmerich ~
Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit with atomic sense of urgency, purpose and apple juice.
~By Isabel Yosito ~
The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.
~By Emma Bonino ~
I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
~By Dave Barry ~
My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
~By Jamie Zawinski ~
We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.
~By Arthur Middleton ~
Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
~By William Weld ~
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
~By Ruth Benedict ~
During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.
~By Norm Dicks ~
Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.
~By Shinichi Suzuki ~
I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
~By Frank Knox ~
Planned change is good. It is being the best, giving your best, and doing your best-on purpose.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
~By Garrison Keillor ~
I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
~By Jack Bowman ~
I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.
~By Megan Fox ~
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.
~By George Armstrong Custer ~
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.
~By Don Nickles ~
Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.
~By Jeane Dixon ~
The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
~By Sitting Bull ~
The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
~By Auberon Herbert ~
You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
~By Taye Diggs ~
As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
Soy sauce is really a multi-purpose seasoning.
~By Martin Yan ~
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
~By Abraham Clark ~
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
~By Karl Kraus ~
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
~By George W. Bush ~
Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.
~By Pia Zadora ~
Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.
~By Dave Pelzer ~
The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.
~By George W. Bush ~
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
~By Catherine Drinker Bowen ~
Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.
~By Mel Torme ~
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
~By Marcel Proust ~
My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
~By Stephanie Tubbs Jones ~
The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
~By Billy Ray Cyrus ~
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
~By A. P. Herbert ~
Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.
~By Sara Gilbert ~
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
~By Walter F. Ulmer ~
To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?
~By Wentworth Miller ~
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.
~By Jones Very ~
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