Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harold Rosenberg

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

James Dean

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

James Gleick

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

Frank Herbert

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

Iyanla Vanzant

You work for God Incorporated.

Iyanla Vanzant

Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God.

Iyanla Vanzant

Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Ringo Starr

I feel just good. I feel like I have a purpose,

Rick Warren

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Octavio Paz

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

Nelson Mandela

There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.

Paul Erdos

The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

Paul Feig

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

Martha Beck

It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.

Martha Beck

Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.

Marion Nestle

Consumers have to understand that the purpose of these claims is to get them to buy the product.

Paul Auster

In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

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.

Moliere

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

Nathan Deal

What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

Julian Baggini

I am only me for practical purposes.

Ken Kesey

Living is the purpose of life, And meaning can be found therein. I finds thou. Thou becomes it. And it begins again.

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

Nick Nolte

This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.

Nick Nolte

There's no greater purpose than service to others.

Muhammad Iqbal

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

Muhammad Ali

My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy.

Mitch Hedberg

I’d like to see a forklift lift a crate of forks. It’d be so damn literal! You are using that machine to it’s exact purpose!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

Mark Batterson

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.