Purpose Quotes - Page 70

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.

Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC.

Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose.

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and death.

When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns. People live aimlessly because they have no cause for which they are willing to die. The cry of the populace is 'Just leave me alone'. Perhaps the ultimate hell is that the wish will be granted. It is not unlikely that our own nation will collapse not through an explosive roar, but through a deafening silence. This silence must be broken in our generation. We may never get another chance.

Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

The purpose of life is to live your dreams, you should never smother your wishes.

The purpose of road traffic is speed, not safety.

Nobody should be owning a gun which does not have a sporting purpose.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot imagine that God designed this disproof of His own existence.

It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?

Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

If I can entertain and expand awareness then I feel like I've fulfilled a purpose.

I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task.

Nothing is happy until it fulfills the purpose for which it was created by God.

Moreover, the whole purpose of God's mighty acts is to bring man to know Him by faith; and Scripture knows no foundation for faith but the spoken word of God, inviting our trust in Him on the basis of what He has done for us.

Everything God does is purposeful. And since God is in each of us, each of us has a purpose.

The purpose of Art Education is to teach you how to draw.

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?