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Purpose Quotes

I don't believe that the Bush Administration had something to do with September 11th. I do believe that there were a lot of warning signals, but I don't think they were ignored on purpose - Bush just wanted to go to the ranch for a month.

Purpose Believe Think Go Month Just

To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration.

Mother Angelica

Life Loneliness Purpose Suffering He

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

George Armstrong Custer

Purpose Possible Narrative Truthful

If the purpose of the wall was to destroy Berlin, Herr Ulbricht and his cohorts have erred sadly. Berlin is not only going to continue to exist - it's going to grow and grow and grow. Its ties to West Germany will not be severed.

Purpose Grow Wall Will West Going

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

Work Myself Purpose Trying Done Way

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

Ellen DeGeneres

Work Love Compassion Purpose Ego

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

Culture Purpose Civilization Behind

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

Freedom Purpose Free Believe Wrong

God's purpose is more important than our plans.

God Purpose Important Plans More

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Life Work Purpose People Because

None of the jazz greats made music for the purpose of you going to check out music before them. Michael Jackson didn't make music so you could go check out Sam Cooke.

Music Purpose You Go Jazz Out

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

Alfred Marshall

Purpose Short Human Things May

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

Elizabeth Kostova

Purpose Book Doing See Point Going

Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

Purpose Way Resources Serve Natural

I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose.

Purpose People Team Conflict Play

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

Martin H. Fischer

Science Purpose Possible Theory Very

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

Isabelle Huppert

Character Purpose Theatre More Than

If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the purpose. If you put good things into your body while working out, you'll see results.

Good Purpose Good Things You Body

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

Purpose Always Out System Something

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Purpose Stupid Design Intention Even

It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.

Purpose Me Compromise Pride Perfect

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

Purpose Unity Language Achieve Count

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?

Beauty Style Purpose You Look Know

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Happiness Purpose True Happiness True

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