The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.
~By Michael K. Simpson ~
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
~By Frank Knox ~
Success demands singleness of purpose.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
~By Moliere ~
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.
~By Merle Haggard ~
I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me.
~By Mark Harmon ~
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 ~
I have myself no more doubt that these metals were prepared by the Almighty for this very purpose, than I have that iron and coal were prepared for the purposes in which they are being used.
~By Hugh McCulloch ~
I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark.
~By Jane Mayer ~
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
~By Edward Abbey ~
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 ~
The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.
~By Richard Grant ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
~By Vinton Cerf ~
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
~By George Eliot ~
Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.
~By Shinichi Suzuki ~
Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.
~By Kelly Miller ~
A car for every purse and purpose.
~By Alfred P. Sloan ~
While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
~By Salvador Dali ~
Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.
~By Dorothy Fields ~
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
~By James Rouse ~
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
~By Max Planck ~
I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.
~By Tom Jenkinson ~
You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
~By Taye Diggs ~
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 ~
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
~By Paul Valery ~
I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen.
~By Henry Laurens ~
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
~By Ira Glass ~
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
~By John Stossel ~
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
~By Christopher Morley ~
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
~By Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ~
With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.
~By Marc Wallice ~
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
~By Bette Davis ~
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
~By Marcel Proust ~
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
~By Walter Scott ~
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
~By David Foster Wallace ~
I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
~By A. P. Herbert ~
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 ~
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
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 ~
For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
~By David Rittenhouse ~
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 ~
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
~By Ayn Rand ~
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 ~
And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
~By Shirley MacLaine ~
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 ~
But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.
~By Robert Shea ~
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
~By Warren Christopher ~
When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
~By Henry Steele Commager ~
I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
~By George W. Bush ~
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
~By Colin Powell ~
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
~By Andy Rooney ~
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 ~
In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
~By Rita Rudner ~
It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.
~By Matthew Ashford ~
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
~By Philip Massinger ~
The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
~By Wayne White ~
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 ~
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.
~By Simon Callow ~
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
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.
~By Gregor Mendel ~
In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.
~By Morarji Desai ~
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.
~By Robert Walpole ~
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.
~By Arthur Hertzberg ~
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
After mature consideration it was unanimously agreed, that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers that may be set down on their lands, a sufficient number of vessels should be hired with all possible expedition for that purpose.
~By Charles Lawrence ~
Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.
~By Cathy McMorris ~
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 ~
I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.
~By John Kricfalusi ~
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
~By Joan Blades ~
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
~By William H. Hunt ~
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 ~
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