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.

Simon Mainwaring

The future of profit is purpose.

Thomas Merton

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.

Saadi

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.

Sonia Choquette

None of us are too sensitive to live our purpose.

Thomas Watson

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

Reggie McNeal

You were created on purpose for a purpose.

Stella Benson

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

Thomas Hobbes

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

Thomas Goodwin

What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.

Veronica Roth

In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.

Viktor E. Frankl

Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.

Usher

Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.

Susanna Kaysen

And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Stefan Molyneux

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

Tacitus

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

Rollo May

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

Tom Robbins

Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.

Steven Pinker

What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today.

Let each moment be guided by positive purpose. And let your whole life express the beauty of who you truly are.

Sergei Prokofiev

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.

Tom DeLonge

I've been abducted and probed in the anus. On purpose.

Sinead O'Connor

It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.

John Owen

God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.

John Milton

Execute their airy purposes.

Norman Cousins

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us

John Templeton

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?

Mark Zuckerberg

If you actually do something you love it's a lot easier and takes on a lot more purpose.