A droll thing life isthat mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself and that comes too late.
Purposes Quotes (1644 Quotes)
The purpose is for the governor to get some feedback from folks in the area about what they'd like to see happen with this land going forward.
To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?
Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
In no way are we anti-Catholic or anti-religious. The chancellor's main objection to this is the use of state dollars for a religious worship purpose. The legal work we've done shows that would not be proper.
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose, ribbed and edged with steel, To strike the blow.
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first intelligence then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it the singleness of purpose and, lastly, . . . stubborn will.
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.
Company executives exercise wide discretion over the use of corporate assets for charitable purposes. Absent a system of accountability for charitable contributions, executives may use corporate assets for objectives that are not shared by, and may be inimical to, the interests of a company and its shareholders, potentially harming long-term shareholder value.
The building that has been the museum's home since 1938 was never designed for that purpose. It was originally a cavernous convention center and hockey rink that despite the outstanding efforts of museum staff and volunteers over the years, has been a difficult space in which to produce exhibits.
There's a lot of seniors sitting at home doing nothing and they would have to be here using their head and they would be busy. It would give them a little purpose.
We've apparently struck a reasonable middle ground and will continue to try to meet the needs of all the authorized purposes.
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
I think our spirits are exceedingly important. I love the notion of congregating for the purpose of being uplifted without words.
This administration is as Machiavellian as any I recall in my lifetime, having already done much to rehabilitate the image of Nixon In their predilection for political power, they have internalized Machiavellis advice never to let his thoughts stray from the exercise of war. ... A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and faithful.
I needed a spark in my life. You become closer to the Lord. The word becomes alive and real. After the class, I felt God was talking to me and I knew my purpose was to bring his love to others.
Everything has a purpose, instead of just going out there and whacking at it. Usually in the spring I just try to get my swing feeling good. This year, Im trying to tighten up every part of my game, which will help me be more consistent.
It is an outrage for someone to solicit funds from well-meaning Americans eager to lend a helping hand to the victims of hurricane Katrina, only to funnel those donations to something that is nothing more than a racist hate site, ... Donors to the thousands of legitimate and worthwhile charities providing hurricane relief need to be reassured that their hard-earned dollars are going toward their intended purpose, and flim-flam artists working this tragedy for personal gain will not be tolerated.
We're not trying to use lending for social purposes. This is a long-term economic issue because private-property ownership has helped to make the U.S. economy what it is today.
We'd have people coming in who otherwise were required to have a city sticker making the very technical argument about why the tickets weren't properly written. The change is basically to clarify it for the purpose of enforcement.
To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.
For book purposes you spread it over many years, but for tax purposes, you can get it in the first year. So you can get a big tax benefit and it boosts earnings.
I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
Virtuous people are simply those who have. . . not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there isn't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
We're entering a market where it's often the case where you are working with and competing with established companies. We can provide a much better cost equation in term of restoring data, but that does not obsolete products for data archiving purposes.
Hip-Hop icon Russell Simmons has joined the Honorary Committee for Daniel Pearl Music Days 2005 , a 10-day network of performances named for the late journalist. I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, ... My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers - both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the 'Harmony For Humanity' e-Stage.
If people admit using cocaine or go into rehab we give them a caution. It's very likely she'll be interviewed ... even if just for intelligence purposes.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
The Veterans Memorial Arena is 40 years old. The scoreboard doesn't work properly. The wooden seats are original. But for its purpose, it's more than viable.
That's something we can address. Those are the kinds of things that it was meant to find out. It served its purpose. We'll see the analysis when it comes forward in a month or so.
This time it will clearly help BU students. Since the fund couldn't serve its original purpose, it's best to help people now and do something with it.
Most business problems require common sense rather than legal reference. They require good judgment and honesty of purpose rather than reference to the courts.
FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. Formerly the knife was employed for this purpose, and by many worthy persons is still thought to have many advantages over the other tool, which, however, they do not altogether reject, but use to assist in charging the knife. The immunity of these persons from swift and awful death is one of the most striking proofs of God's mercy to those that hate Him.
The inlet of a man's mind is what he learns the outlet is what he accomplishes. If his mind is not fed by a continued supply of new ideas which he puts to work with purpose, and if there is no outlet in action, his mind becomes stagnant. Such a mind is a danger to the individual who owns it and is useless to the community.
Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.
I have no doubt that there will continue to be bumps, some serious crises indeed in our relationship with China, ... Neither membership in the WTO nor normalized trade relations with the United States will magically impose the rule of law on China or institute deep-seeded respect for human rights. But it certainly has potential to advance those purposes.
This nation is about to be hit with a tidal wave of new retirees. In just six years, the baby boomers will begin to retire. The demands on Social Security and Medicare will be dramatically increased, ... This is no time to divert Social Security and Medicare funds to other purposes.
Charity does require sacrifice, even from big spending politicians using other people's money for charitable purposes.
This team and this program has always had a winning tradition. This kind of gave them more of a purpose the rest of the year. They're playing for more than just themselves or just this team.
The Bush administration came to town with the purpose of exerting better control over information as a way of restoring power to the executive branch.
The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
I wrote a book called 'To Renew America,' and I look up at a sign that says, 'Renewing America's Purpose,' ... I feel that they're building at what we did, and I feel actually, very comfortable with it.
Any postponement of an attack on Iraq at this stage will serve no purpose. It will only give him (Saddam) more of an opportunity to accelerate his program of weapons of mass destruction.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
I say to all Americans, Republican, Democrat or independent, if you believe America deserves leaders with a purpose more ennobling than expediency and opportunism, then vote for Governor Bush,