Purpose Quotes - Page 52

We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.

Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the road.

This objective of getting what we want from other people-or getting them to do what we want them to do-threatens the autonomy of people, their right to choose what they want to do. And whenever people feel that they're not free to choose what they want to do, they are likely to resist, even if they see the purpose in what we are asking and would ordinarily want to do it.

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

You can't allow other people to define your purpose or your destiny.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no explanation. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the Earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to

To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.

It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy.

Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy.

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.

We fail, not because of big problems, but because of small purposes.

To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

God never allows pain without a purpose.

We have a no puke rule. The purpose is performance, not puking.

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.