Purposes Quotes (1644 Quotes)

The fact is we have very few facts. The purpose of the Internet Policy Institute is to gather the kind of data that's going to be essential to develop the Internet.

WHAT IT DOES With 99 percent of the body's calcium stored in the skeleton and teeth, the main role of the mineral is to help build bones and increase bone density. However, calcium has other functions, too, including helping blood clot and muscles contract. When the body is short on calcium for these purposes, it steals the mineral from your bones. Unless we constantly replenish our supply of calcium, drop by drop, our bones become thinner from depleting our calcium savings account, ... It's like living off your principal instead of your interest. It's not smart, and it puts you at risk for osteoporosis.

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.

It's not for any purpose such as religion, health, or things like that, I just never felt I had the need or want to drink or do drugs.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

In our conversations, the purpose was not to draw lines. Ultimately, in the region, it's up to individual countries to determine what kind of relationship they are going to have with China.

All the same, they books do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it that critical mirror alone offers him his image.

Computer users are often unaware that their computers are being controlled by others and used for malicious purposes,

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.

They Congress didn't fix the right problem. It was done for political purposes. It is a dreadful bill Medicare prescription-drug bill. It made problems worse, not better.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

A car for every purse and purpose.

The Court recognized that just like shopping malls are the new public square, these associations have become and act, for all practical purposes, like municipal entities unto themselves.

The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.

And lately, Thomas has been re-reading a book he's found particularly meaningful The Purpose Driven Life ... If you only talk about the past, there is no future.

I was always loving, involved with charities and family, and I had a rich life before. Now, I have a purpose. I got sick maybe for this reason.

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.

In every fiber of his being he lived out his belief that each and every one of us bears a responsibility to do whatever we can to right the wrongs of this world and to use our talents and our time to serve a larger purpose.

Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose the ability to do, the patience to wait.... Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement.

Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyse yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

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.

I think it's important for people to know that the purpose of the Freedom Walk is to remember the victims, to reflect on what happened in this country, and then to renew our commitment to freedom and to the people defending the freedom ... our men and women in the military across the globe.

My intent in drafting this bill is to provide Native Hawaiians with the opportunity to reorganize their governing entity for the purposes of a federally recognized government-to-government relationship with the United States, ... This is important because it provides parity in the way the federal government deals with the indigenous peoples who inhabited the lands which have become the United States.

a war so poorly conceived, conducted and explained by (the) country's leaders. ... You do not squander courage and lives without clear purpose, without the country's backing and without full commitment.

It was wrong at the eleventh hour to try to attach this energy and environment measure to a bill whose sole purpose is to provide funding for the American military at a time of war.

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

Breyer said, ''that certainly looks to text, certainly looks to history, certainly looks to tradition and precedent -- but that also emphasizes heavily the purpose of this particular provision and the consequences as viewed in terms of the purposes, is more likely to get at what this law is about, what area of human life it is seeking to affect and how. That's what I think the essence of law is.

Good works never languish for want of funds the Lord will come to their rescue. Only it may take some time do not lose heart... You should not collect money in devious ways. Help should come from pious hearts, from well-earned money, from persons who know and appreciate the purpose for which they give. That is why I oppose all benefit shows, where you tempt people with a dance or a drama or a film and collect money for your pet plan.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Don't get mad except on purpose.

In familiar terms, it is the condition that allows each individual and his family to pursue, without fear, the purpose of their lives.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.

Quite simply, the strong Pacific flow is continuing to inhibit any major intrusions of Arctic air into the lower 48. The winter is rapidly coming to an end for all practical purposes.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

The purpose is to showcase the art and writing of the students. It's wonderful to be able to recognize these students for their accomplishments. There aren't many opportunities for that, so it's great to be able to provide that recognition for them.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose. . .

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.

Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

Counsel's advice to me was that they (SDI) do not have a valid claim for voting purposes.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing. (October 27, 1964)

The purpose is to help you as best we can. We are here to provide you assistance, help and walk through the process.

The governor is committed to more jobs and more opportunity for New Yorkers. That was the purpose of the trade mission when we announced it nine months ago. It's the purpose today.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?