Purpose Quotes

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The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God,… — Rowan Williams
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about… — Simon Callow
You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another. — James Levine
All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time… — Jim Garrison
Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make. — Alain Resnais
The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the… — Vitruvius
I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible… — Ronald Biggs
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might… — Henry Cabot Lodge
Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several,… — Walter Kaufmann
It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while… — Walter Kaufmann
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something… — Walter Kaufmann
The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective. — John Clayton
Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way. — Scott Wolf
I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which… — Henry Laurens
How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found,… — Simon Greenleaf
It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know… — Emanuel Celler
The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people. — Louis Stokes
It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to… — Matthew Ashford
And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge… — Robert Walpole
The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their… — Robert Toombs

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