Purposely Quotes
69 quotes by 64 authors
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or…
— Saint Basil
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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence.…
— Horace Mann
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Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim,…
— Frederick Douglass
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And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it,…
— Pat Condell
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1. Stress improvement, not perfection (or winning). 2. Don't take yourself too seriously; laugh at yourself and have fun. 3. Set attainable goals; reach them…
— Dick Gould
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Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story,…
— Paul Simon
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I have a way of dealing with situations where I come off awkward, or people think I’m purposely trying to make things uncomfortable. But normally…
— Aubrey Plaza
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I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a…
— Travis Barker
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I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves…
— Aldo Leopold
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I mean a global warming advocate is as wrong as anybody could be about anything, folks. It's a hoax. There is no man-made global warming.…
— Rush Limbaugh
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The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and…
— Pierre-Paul Grasse
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We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord raised up men purposely for the…
— Lorenzo Snow
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If you do things to the limit, and don’t purposely go over that limit, then I think it’s fine to do whatever you want. So…
— Michael Schumacher
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Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists…
— Louis Agassiz
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To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a…
— John Hall Gladstone
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Therefore I begin to think, my Lord, you purposely allow us to be brought into contact with the bad and evil things that You want…
— Hannah Hurnard
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I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
— Yvon Chouinard
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so…
— Jane Mayer
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We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.
— Horace Mann
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