Purpose Quotes - Page 84

We are all cells of a much larger body, and like the cells of our own body it is hard for us to glimpse the whole pattern of the whole of what is happening, and yet we can sense that there is a purpose, and there is a pattern.

The purpose of computers is human freedom.

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.

People who follow the principles of the Bible - even unknowingly - tend to have a dramatic impact on their world. For instance, no one would argue that it's a bad idea "to love your neighbor as yourself". On the other hand, those who don't follow it's principles or misuse the principles of the Bible for their own purposes can have equally devastating impact.

We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.

God made everything else but man "after its kind"' - that is, according to the purpose and destiny he envisaged for it. But he made man in His own image. Man is patterned on God! He was made to represent God - in created, human form.

Could you please stop with the beating? (Kat) He’s being punished. Hello? This is Tartarus, remember the purpose of this part of the Underworld? We’re not really warm and fluffy over here. (Hades)

The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.

The dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him.

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution.

You have to ask yourself a question: "What's the purpose of the private sector - to support government?" And if the answer is, "Yes, it is," then you're a Democrat.

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.

Compassion leads to freedom of discovering your voice, your gifts, and your purpose.

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can.

No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.

We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

Everything happens for the purpose of what you decide to do about it.

A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.