Purpose Quotes - Page 59

You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.

... there is one primary purpose of a Christian's business: to serve God.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.

The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad.

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.

A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential

I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.

The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers.

There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.

You have to realize: OK, I don't know how to solve a political problem, I don't know how to solve the pollution problem... all I know is in my own life, I need to figure out some sense of purpose, I need to figure out how to be happy... and I'm willing.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged.

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

The male has paid a heavy price for his masculine 'privilege' and power. He is out of touch with his emotions and his body. He is playing by the rules of the male game plan and with lemming-like purpose he is destroying himself-emotionally, psychologically and physically.

A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence.

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.