For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly,… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
What we are doing in the Pacific is we're flying, operating, and sailing wherever international law allows, and the purpose of that… — Joseph Dunford Copy Share Image
We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its… — Alfred Edersheim Copy Share Image
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“God’s master-plan is made up of our individual assignments whose collective objective is to impact mankind positively.” — D.S. Mashego Copy Share Image
I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
More likely, there were probably some real divisions within the Iranian government - some groups wanted to ally with al Qaeda against… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we… — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I think maybe the most important thing that we have to say is that people don't often talk about network executives being… — Craig Zadan Copy Share Image
I state the threefold purpose of my travels in Arabia: to see the country, to write about it and to be of… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
With more money, you can take better care of yourself and leverage your passion and higher purpose in the world. Earn more,… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
For me, promotional thing about some new album coming out destroys a lot of the excitement of making records. Records, movies, books… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
“The fortunate is he whose earnest purpose never swerves, Whose slightest action or inaction serves The one great aim. Why, even Death… — Ella Wilcox Wheeler Copy Share Image
The question is whether or not our insecurities are substantial enough to hurt, limit, or even distract us from profound effectiveness or… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
We must be able to appeal to the CCO and CMO with programs that have purpose at the core, that start movements… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is not to simply be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also,… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
Well, I'm somebody who is just living ...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Everything I've always done has been for the sole purpose of increasing my lovemaking output. A lot of guys won't admit that,… — Rick Fox Copy Share Image
“You will need an evidence to show the world that you didn’t waste your time here on earth. Generations to come should… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes… — Dave Zirin Copy Share Image
“No man has become world's richest man because he wasted his time in the pub in the cinemas watching movies and sports.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose.… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Life is short. Make the most of it. Put God first. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Laugh a lot. Find and live out… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for… — Dorman Bridgeman Eaton Copy Share Image
“As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I was a very earnest child. I was not funny. I would get laughed at for my earnestness, so I learned to… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
