Purpose Quotes - Page 110

We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.

Oh yes. You’ve caught me. I confess. My sole purpose in life is to gleefully, willfully, maniacally destroy all of your precious chrome babies.

We need to reexamine and reassess the purpose of the corporation, and go back to the idea that senior leadership has responsibilities not just to shareholders but also to customers and employees.

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

What do you want a clock for?” “To find out what time it is,” I said. “I think that’s the usual purpose.

Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.

It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots.

When I do music I don't do it with a purpose in mind. I just feel like it's a little bit contrived if you try to do something like that. It's got to come organically.

A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.

The earth has Fates all her own. The earth has purpose. And we can only partially know what that purpose is.

I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.

This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful to this end.

I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.

If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.

For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power?

I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.

When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.

All the same, Thomas now had a plan. As bad as it was, he had a plan. They needed more clues about the code. They needed MEMORIES. So he was going to get stung by a Griever. Go through the Changing. On purpose.