We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Then you don't know. You can't know what it feels like to meet a person and suddenly know without a doubt that… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn't be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that… — Forrest Carter Copy Share Image
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“It's very simple. Keep your body as clean as possible, your mind as clear as possible. That's all you need. And do… — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm So Sick is about how the world can sometimes be a sick and messed up place and how that influences us… — Lacey Mosley Copy Share Image
“God wants us all to strive to grow more like Jesus, to become holy as he is holy, but God has a… — Melanie Dickerson Copy Share Image
But, on more accounts than one, I had had enough of moose-hunting. I had not come to the woods for this purpose,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia.… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this… — Ruth Nanda Anshen Copy Share Image
You don't have to just hit nails with hammers, you know; you can use a hammer to beat somebody's brains in, to… — Stephen Bruner Copy Share Image
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. .… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If you are alive, you have reason to be happy. If things are really bad, they can only get better. Everyone has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best way that I knew how.… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
“She says it’s wrong to be frittering away my hours asking questions when there’s work to be done. But I don’t see… — Victoria Forester Copy Share Image
Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The word philosophy simply means a pursuit of wisdom, the purpose of life, and a search for Truth. However, this quest, because… — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
The CEO announces that the purpose of the firm is to improve the lives of the customers and the lives of the… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
While General Howe with a Large Armament is advancing towards New York, our Congress resolved to Declare the United Colonies free and… — Abraham Clark Copy Share Image
My comedy on Twitter is very personal and a lot of it is messy and emotional, but I also want people to… — Rachel Sennott Copy Share Image
Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and Buryat shamanism's… — Michael Warren Copy Share Image
Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the… — Count of St. Germain Copy Share Image
I hate Gucci,' said Francis. 'Do you?' said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. 'Really? I think it's rather grand.' 'Come on,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
God made everything else but man "after its kind"' - that is, according to the purpose and destiny he envisaged for it.… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image