Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.
Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way purposeless, passionless, day after day.
The assertion of purpose in a world we felt to be purposeless would be a form of sentimentality.
I've never seen this country united against something more than they are united against these terrorists, ... They have seen the kind of purposeless hate and bloodshed that (terrorists) espouse, and everybody is against them.
The spectacle of Mr. Allen being wheeled into the death chamber, unable to walk and unable to see those who have come to witness his execution, violates all standards of decency and would amount to nothing more than the purposeless and needless imposition of pain and suffering prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.
There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing Of old random jottings set down in a blank book You've unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book.
Here, in this little bay, Full of tumultuous life and great repose, Where, twice a day, The purposeless, glad ocean comes and goes.
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today ... is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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