“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is… — Bernard d'Espagnat Copy Share Image
... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Soul mates are brought together for a reason. All their lives they have been preparing for each other. When they look back… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Some of my team-mates in the Under-18s used to play 'Call of Duty' and they told me I should jump on it.… — Hector Bellerin Copy Share Image
I believe that space travel will one day become as common as airline travel is today. I'm convinced, however, that the true… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small… — Barbara Ann Kipfer Copy Share Image
“Hello, listeners. In breaking news: the sky. The Earth. Life! Existence as an unchanging plane with horizons of birth and death in… — Welcome to Nightvale Copy Share Image
The Savior taught His disciples, 'For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“A significant percentage of the millions of students who will graduate schools today are desperately searching for the one thing. But rather… — Phil Cooke Copy Share Image
From my student days I found him a compelling and fascinating, though often puzzling, figure. It's a lifelong fascination now and I… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
We must never forget that this coutry was founded by men who came to these shores to worship God as they pleased.… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pray earnestly and fast with purpose and devotion. Some difficulties, like devils, do not come out save by fasting and by prayer.… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor,… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from… — David Shi Copy Share Image
September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Well, no American wants to in any way hurt our capabilities to national defense, but that doesn't mean an unlimited amount of… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
He was a superb military officer but he was also an extraordinarily gifted politician. That he was an unusually open, honest and… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conservatives insist that government should be "run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The whole point of what -Jesus was up to was that he was doing close up, in the present, what he was… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Everything useful in mathematics has been devised for a purpose. Even if you don't know it, the guy who did it first,… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
