Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Van Allen

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?

James Van Allen

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

Brandi Carlile

The purpose of it all is love.

Bruce Jenner

For all intents and purposes, I am a woman

Douglas Adams

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

Dalai Lama

The purpose of life is to be happy.

Anne Parillaud

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?

Anne Rice

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

Clayton Christensen

Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

Baha'u'llah

The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.

Ashton Eaton

To do the best that I possibly could in my world makes me pretty happy.

Azim Premji

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.

Ayn Rand

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Brian Tracy

There is nobody like him in the world. There is - and always will be - one Jim Rohn.

Jane Goodall

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

Benjamin Disraeli

Everything in this world depends upon will.

Cao Cao

I will show you the path to the spirit world.

Bryant H. McGill

We can each immediately liberate ourselves as victims in the world, through solidifying an intent to act.

Tom Stoppard

The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.

Guy Gleichmann

The weather is still the dominating factor. The bears have retaken control of this market.

John McWhorter

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

Jane Austen

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Ben Jonson

Let argument bear no unmusical sound.

Elinor Wylie

I bear a little more than I can bear.

Clive Owen

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

Christopher Walken

Bear suits are funny - and bears as well.

Anselm Kiefer

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.