The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose. — Marlo Morgan Copy Share Image
“We fought an enemy, invisible yet definite, who diligently worked to block us from our intended purpose, keeping us from the one… — Sibella Giorello Copy Share Image
If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time. — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even… — Hudson Gurney Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We should be in harmony with our own consciousness; our mind, body, and soul should be one in interest and in purpose.… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts… — Bertram Brockhouse Copy Share Image
If you get to think of sharing wealth with people who need it and the purposes that need it, it gives a… — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
“Ladies, get confident about yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man… — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
There is a purpose in life--to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The basic skills of leaders are always the same: be driven by a deeper purpose, be a human being, have a passion… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
“That woman thinks you've been waiting your whole life to believe in something, and she's ready to tell you what it should… — Esther Yi Copy Share Image
“The purpose of life is to live it being self-aware in the eternal now with its infinite versions of us. It is… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
The real purpose of education in a person's life should be able to make him transform his envy into admiration. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When I design menswear, it is important for me to consider where you wear the clothes and what purpose they serve. — Junya Watanabe Copy Share Image
Even if you find him. Even if he didn’t leave you on purpose, he can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“We all have an opportunity and responsibility to create a legacy. A legacy which is resilient, sustainable and authentic." - Jim Cookson,… — Jim Cookson Copy Share Image
The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what… — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.'… — Carson Daly Copy Share Image
Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of our age is that a greater percentage of people living today are only living in the dream world.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
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