Purposes Quotes (1644 Quotes)

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

Tomorrow, a three-way meeting will be coordinated involving senior echelons of both sides, headed on the Israeli side by Ariel Sharon, for the purpose of bringing about a cease-fire and immediate implementation of the Tenet plan.

Existence without an aim, without a worthy purpose, is worse than wasted

Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.

Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.

You cultivate the essential virtues high purpose, intelligence, decency, humility, fear of the Lord, and the passion for freedom.

The only thing that gives new technology purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.

The works of Archimedes are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the propositions, the stern elimination of everything not immediately relevant to the purpose, the finish of the whole, are so impressive in their perfection as to create a feeling akin to awe in the mind of the reader.

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

I've been making adjustments. I've got a lot of confidence in him and we understand when he says something, it's for a purpose.

We need your help to capture the rest of them, ... We also need to get rid of foreign fighters, those from neighboring countries who are seeking to hijack your country for their own purposes.

We're still talking to condo developers, but our purpose is to create very traditional-style duplex condominiums. They will be very single-family in appearance.

We were moving the ball with a purpose today. Against Mt. Markham we were rushing things, just trying to force it in there. Today we were focused on getting where we wanted to go, not going where the defense wanted us to go.

Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.

No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.

They were no help in Karachi (site of escalating violence) or with the bomb blasts. All I got from them were concocted stories of corruption. What is the purpose of intelligence, if they can't infiltrate terrorism

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage.

Obviously those players aren't trying to do it on purpose, ... but those mistakes hurt you.

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

For instance, if he gets arrested on another felony within a certain amount of time it can be used to enhance the sentence on that new felony. It's not totally gone. But for the concern that's surfaced here, the retaining of his employment I would view that as an acquittal for those purposes.

Mr. Bush's government knows perfectly well the strong action by our country, the cooperation it offers and the impressive volume of drugs seized, ... But none of that counts because what matters to the U. S. government is the political disqualification of Venezuela for the purpose of future aggressions.

He enlisted and went on to fight in World War II and fight for civil rights at home, when he got back, ... He had a whole, rich life, full of passion and purpose. He died surrounded by a lot of people who loved him it's pretty much a straight-up American dream.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Some people, from the same injuries it takes them two years. And I've healed in a little bit over three months. I was in Palm Springs and I was just thinking, what is the purpose in this, what is the meaning It was really difficult.

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing

Consolidated Credit Bank is not registered in the Dominion of Melchizedek. It was at one stage for certain technical purposes. The original license came from there and then we took it on under our own nation.

As far as I am concerned, this is a totally bone-headed idea. As it stands now, there are way too many 'no turn on red' signs, most of which serve no obvious purpose. As a pedestrian, I've experienced almost no problems with the turn-on-red law.

The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

Through prayer, we look for ways to understand the arbitrary harm left by this storm and the mystery of undeserved suffering, ... And in our search, we are reminded that God's purposes are sometimes impossible to know here on earth. Yet ever as we are humbled by forces we cannot explain, we take comfort in the knowledge that no one is ever stranded beyond God's care.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

He's just one of the best point guards in the league. Four of those jumpers, I hit him on the forehead on purpose - he was just hot. Maybe I should have made him pay for dinner last night.

We have been asked by the Justice Department, those who are conducting this investigation, to make ourselves available for any purpose that they have, ... We have been asked to take a look at our calendars and documents to see if we have any information that is relevant to this inquiry, and we obviously will cooperate fully with the Department of Justice in getting the answers that they seek, as the president has directed us to do.

We keep discovering additional methods Sony used to deceive Texas consumers who thought they were simply buying music. Thousands of Texans are now potential victims of this deceptive game Sony played with consumers for its own purposes.

Free agency is the impelling source of the soul's progress. It is the purpose of the Lord that man become like him. In order for man to achieve this it was necessary for the Creator first to make him free.

They take in items and they have to have some idea of what the value of it is for insurance purposes. People like Finder's Keepers (a company specializing in antiques) - they bring along their tools too, they have particular books they use to asses the value of something so they will bring theirs and we will have ours out - so it's the combination of the two.

I like to say that I've never really had a real job, ... But I never looked at modeling from a business standpoint I'd simply work on things that I wanted to do and sell them when I was done. It was basically a way to pay for my hobby. The purpose wasn't to make money the purpose was to pay the rent so I could do it full-time.

They might have lost track. They can be trying to disrupt an operation. They could have a number of purposes at once.

It is now possible to abolish work and replace it, insofar as it serves useful purposes, with a multitude of new kinds of free activities. To abolish work requires going at it from two directions, quantitative and qualitative. On the one hand, on the quantitative side, we have to cut down massively on the amount of work being done. At present most work is useless or worse and we should simply get rid of it. On the other hand -- and I think this the crux of the matter and the revolutionary new departure -- we have to take what useful work remains and transform it into a pleasing variety of game-like and craft-like pastimes, indistinguishable from other pleasurable pastimes, except that they happen to yield useful end-products.

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

The stability of Afghanistan is the stability of our country. We support the good relationship between us and we've had a lot of good cooperation between us and we hope in the future I'm sure that we can actually strengthen our relationships. And this trip is for this purpose. And I am very hopeful and very optimistic,

But, Roderigo, if thou hast that
in thee indeed, which I have greater reason to believe now than
ever, I mean purpose, courage, and valor, this night show it; if
thou the next night following enjoy not Desdemona, take me from
this world with treachery and devise engines for my life.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

A tax system is best if it can be kept as simple as it needs to be to satisfy all its various purposes. This means that it can be clearly understood and is most likely to meet various Government objectives and be straightforward for both individuals and businesses our research shows that taxpayers are being swamped by a barrage of tax legislation.

If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs.

I was brought up in the church, went to church a lot and believe in God. I don't do wrong on purpose. I will slip up and I make mistakes but that's part of life. The most important thing is not to continuously make the same mistake and I am quite a compassionate person. I hate to see children suffer and people suffer. If I can help someone I will. One promise I made is that if I become as successful as I want to be and wealthy I will adopt deprived kids to give them a better life, and I want to have children of my own as well.