My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn't want to cause any unhappiness now-in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn't here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly. (W. Bruce Cameron, "A Dog's Purpose") >> More W. Bruce Cameron Quotations...
Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca. (Wilkie Collins, "The Woman in White") >> More Wilkie Collins Quotations...
By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards-and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous-but the honestest fellow. (William Makepeace Thackeray, "Vanity Fair") >> More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotations...
Now the purpose of her stories had changed. She spun them to discover their meaning. In the telling, she found, you reached a point where you could not go back, whereùas the stories changedùit transformed you, too. (Ursula Hegi, "Stones from the River") >> More Ursula Hegi Quotations...
He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No rational form of organization would serve the purpose. He simply had not understood that the purpose was to enable men with machine guns to kill unarmed men and women easily and in great quantities when told to do so. Only he still could not see where courage, or manliness, or fitness entered in. (Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia") >> More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotations...
An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize values in creative work, while a passive life of enjoyment affords him the opportunity to obtain fulfillment in experiencing beauty, art, or nature. (Viktor E. Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning") >> More Viktor E. Frankl Quotations...
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder. (Virginia Woolf, "Orlando") >> More Virginia Woolf Quotations...
You take girls, for example. They're copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to act around guys. I mean it's not like in movies where girls like assholes or anything like that. It's not that easy. They just like somebody that can give them purpose. (Stephen Chbosky, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower") >> More Stephen Chbosky Quotations...