Purpose Quotes

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family. Herbert Hoover
Family Uncle Farm Living Dreadful Recollection Hopes Some Vivid Purpose Could Bought Mortgage Major Know Spot Did Produce Youthful Lived Whom Right Things
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. Herbert Hoover
Great Experiment Economic Purpose Noble Motive America Social
Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for my health, and I thought I might do some good. Hilary Mantel
Health Good Writing Thought Sense Too Some Purpose Had Territory Stop Being Wanted Might
Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns. Hilary Mantel
Life Buy Day You Book Sometimes Ghost One Day Drawn Purpose Through Take Pick Shelf Contents Up Maybe Just Elbow Then Much Notice Your Flick Original Inner Inner Life
I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nobel, whom we commemorate today, do not fail from lack of purpose on the part of scientists. Howard Florey
Today Ourselves Must Hopes See Purpose Part Nobel Fail Feel Ideals Exert Scientists Commemorate Lack Held Whom Utmost
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies. Howard Thurman
Man Commitment Cause Men Important Possible Nerve More Purpose He Ideal Him His Yield Than Dies May Movement Center Whether Which Means Lives Consent
I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule. Ian Anderson
Best Try Single Think Please Rule Those Releasing Out Something Purpose Write Songs Occasionally Been Encouraged Get Anybody Really Radio Ever Play Specifically Set
I think there's something about having a purpose in life and a sense of belonging that is more important than money for any human being. Ian Gillan
Life Human Being Money Important Sense Think About Something Having More Purpose Than Any Human Being Belonging
I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically. Iggy Azalea
Home School Listening Gone Lunch Back Rap Out High Stay High School Purpose Point Dropped Without Got Passed Doing Go Go Home Friends Just Where Afternoon Depressed Then Really Even Basically
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. Igor Stravinsky
Music Time Man Sole Sole Purpose Given Purpose Between Particularly Establishing Order Us Including Coordination Things
Genuine music, to me, is the one which has no purpose. It should be as natural and as purposeless as the flow of the river. Ilaiyaraaja
Music Me Natural Purpose River Genuine Which Should Flow
I've always wanted my music to serve a certain purpose. India Arie
Music Purpose Always Wanted Certain Serve
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question. Ira Glass
Needs Purpose Driving Question Than Where Different Fiction Radio Even Mediocre
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. Irwin Shaw
Every Several Purpose Purposes Contradictory Often Different Which Might Even Novelist
Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit with atomic sense of urgency, purpose and apple juice. Isabel Yosito
You Passion Mind Sense Every Every Step Spirit Atomic Purpose Take Step Juice Infuse Urgency Body Your Show Apple
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre. Isabelle Huppert
Character Theatre Films More Purpose Unusual Understood Than Greeks Interest Usual Portraying
A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error. Isoroku Yamamoto
Faith Time Man Sometimes Purpose He Put Puts Himself Always Real His Falls Error Gods From Time To Time Refuses Even
The only people I've ever met who are really successful in their fields, regardless of what field that is, are people who are deeply passionate about the work they do every day and are motivated by a sense of purpose. Ivanka Trump
Work Day Every Day People Met Sense Field Every About Only Purpose Motivated Passionate Regardless Fields Really Successful Who Ever Deeply
I got to a point when I was 20 that I dropped out of university because I felt I didn't have any purpose, and I wanted to find a fire in me. Jack Garratt
Me Fire Out Find Purpose Point Dropped Because Felt Got Any Wanted University
I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science. Jack Germond
Science Better Political Long Tell Telling Civic Purpose Argued He Beyond Know Most Readers Always Score Quickly Political Science Reporter Any Want Happening Newspapers Should Teach Who Last
Conserving fuel is fine, and it was great in the past. The problem is that the drivers don't have to do it. It's all done electronically. You sit there, and it saves fuel for you, and that defeats the purpose. Jacques Villeneuve
Great You Problem Past Sit Saves Conserving Fine Purpose Drivers Done In The Past Fuel Defeats
Marvel, I think, on purpose, they don't tell me certain things. Because they know I'll be like, 'So here's what's gonna happen.' But I do know I will be in 'Thor 3' and that Sif will have a very pivotal part in that movie. Jaimie Alexander
Me Will Think Thor Tell Purpose Marvel Part Like Know Because Very Movie Happen Pivotal Gonna Certain Certain Things Things Here
The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so. James Altucher
Life You Have Fun Universe One Thing More Purpose Learns How Doing Than Maybe Wants Us Fun Thing
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. James Buchan
Poem Poetry Purpose Contain Like Importance Does Any Information Translating Notice Warning
Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the poem is to enable us to remember some information. James Fenton
Memory Remember Aid Say Some Poem Poems Purpose Device Enable Information Rhyme Themselves Us Whole
It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next. James L. Buckley
World Year Would Some Constitutional Seem Purpose Longer Safeguard Learned Perjury Acceptable Least May Next Original Therefore Now Acts Serve Last Last Year
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