And a lesson in this movie is dig beneath the surface. And so with my words, with my character, I purposely created a character that was away from how you've known me thus far in my career.
~By Shemar Moore ~
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
~By Ron Paul ~
America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
~By William E. Simon ~
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
~By Willie Nelson ~
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
~By Anatole France ~
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
~By William Hazlitt ~
The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
Now, there are people that are Christian artists, because they have a purpose to be evangelical for Christ. I don't feel I've been called to that yet. Now, that could change. There's no telling what kind of call God will put on my life.
~By Scott Stapp ~
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 ~
We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes.
~By William Henry Ashley ~
Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.
~By Dave Pelzer ~
How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
~By Wayne White ~
So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.
~By Billy Sherwood ~
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 ~
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
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 ~
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
~By George Eliot ~
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
~By Simone Weil ~
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
~By Dalai Lama ~
A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
~By Antonin Scalia ~
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.
~By Isabelle Huppert ~
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose.
~By Jewel Kilcher ~
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 instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.
~By Robert Toombs ~
Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
~By Horace ~
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 ~
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
~By Erich Fromm ~
Our purpose is to be up here to resolve these issues. Our purpose is to be up here and represent the people.
~By Allen West ~
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
~By Washington Irving ~
If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
~By Barney Frank ~
Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
~By Denis Waitley ~
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 ~
You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.
~By Dick Durbin ~
My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
~By Manfred von Richthofen ~
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.
~By Nathan Deal ~
Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.
~By Knute Nelson ~
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
~By Thomas Szasz ~
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.
~By Karl Philipp Moritz ~
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
~By Cecil Beaton ~
I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.
~By Geoffrey Fisher ~
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
~By Idries Shah ~
The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.
~By John Walters ~
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.
~By Mike Johanns ~
That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
~By Lysander Spooner ~
That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.
~By Mitch Kapor ~
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
~By William Godwin ~
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
~By Joshua Reynolds ~
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
~By Arlen Specter ~
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 ~
The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest.
~By Ari Fleischer ~
Success demands singleness of purpose.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
~By Marcel Proust ~
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.
~By Robert Shea ~
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.
~By Jean Stafford ~
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
~By Charles Babbage ~
Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.
~By Alain Resnais ~
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
~By Joan Blades ~
The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.
~By Ken Calvert ~
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.
~By William Temple ~
In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.
~By Heather Donahue ~
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
~By Horace ~
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
~By Edward Teller ~
The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.
~By Atal Bihari Vajpayee ~
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
~By Barbara Hepworth ~
The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.
~By Neal Boortz ~
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The purpose creates the machine.
~By Arthur Young ~
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.
~By Herbert Croly ~
The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.
~By George G. Simpson ~
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
~By Mark Rothko ~
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 ~
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.
~By Roy Lichtenstein ~
Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.
~By Cordell Hull ~
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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