The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Everybody is an expert in giving advice on how you cannot do something. So forget about everybody. And then, when you encounter… — Maria Elena Ibanez Copy Share Image
The General who in advancing does not seek personal fame, and in withdrawing is not concerned with avoiding punishment, but whose only… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Any anxious thought as to the means to be employed in the accomplishment of our purposes is quite unnecessary. If the end… — Thomas Troward Copy Share Image
In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to… — Philip French Copy Share Image
It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world. That's their motive,… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude understood only when we have been without it. We cannot separate ourselves from… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
Brexiteers often hark back to the blitz. Maybe they think the 'Britain standing alone' motif adds much-needed heroic purpose to a Brexit… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
One of the reasons so many singles are dissatisfied is that they're looking for a change in status to define their significance,… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
The truth is that everyone is put on this earth with a purpose, a purpose of life, love, wisdom, and friendship. There… — Sarah Copy Share Image
Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“It may be said, in broad-brush terms, that the primary purpose of life is the continuation of life. A deep program for… — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In life, purpose is defined by the thing that makes you angry. Martin Luther was angry; Mandela was angry; Mahatma Gandhi was… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
These are the moments. These are the moments where you realize love is everywhere if you look closely. When you realize happiness… — Camila Cabello Copy Share Image
You will be surprised to learn how some very knowing people have misunderstood Plotto. On glancing at it, some of the intelligentia… — William Wallace Cook Copy Share Image
The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the… — Alphonse Mucha Copy Share Image
Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“A path. A career. Maybe even...a purpose,” Ariadne said. “Something you can do that you can believe in, that will challenge you,… — Robert J. Crane Copy Share Image
The days, the weeks, the years out here shall come back again, and our dead comrades shall then stand up again and… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We are increasingly blind for terrorism purposes and for general law enforcement purposes with the new devices and the continuing effort to… — William Bratton Copy Share Image
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren't born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“And there wasn’t anything he wanted to do that he couldn’t make time for. What did he have to mope about, really?… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image