Purpose Quotes
5907 quotes by 3153 authors
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Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert the process to…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and…
— Peter Watts
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I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.
— Betty Buckley
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The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films…
— Isabelle Huppert
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So yeah, it's nothing that I'm doing on purpose, I just think that the more records, the more songs that I write, the more records…
— Kenny Chesney
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Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of…
— Neil Armstrong
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George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to…
— Josh Brolin
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Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose
— Richard Dawkins
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If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such…
— Richard Dawkins
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In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, 'What do I want to do?' Your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to…
— Chris Pine
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Well, the experience for me making a film is the most profound one. I really don’t have any business watching the movie so much. Maybe…
— Jared Leto
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It's always been very clear to me that I was going to be a mother and that my purpose in life was to give life.
— Elle Macpherson
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I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.
— Sara Gilbert
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Women -- a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?
— Jack Nicholson
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I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened not because of…
— Barack Obama
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To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?
— Anne Parillaud
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John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed with…
— Michael Palin
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God is so good. Always follow your dreams, own your Purpose! Embrace God's Anointing
— Keke Palmer
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It seems like the big difference between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind…
— David Foster
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The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern - just like my dad How will you serve the world? What…
— Jim Carrey
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