961 Purpose Quotes for You to Enjoy

It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head. Mal Peet

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose. Manfred von Richthofen

War Cheese Gone Collect Purpose Excellency Another Dear Eggs

Nobody moves on purpose to Detroit. Manoj Bhargava

Purpose Detroit Nobody Moves

With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office. Marc Wallice

In 1791, the right to bear arms to defend against an over-reaching government wasn't theoretical. Today, it's hard to imagine physical weapons serving the same purpose. But it's easy to see how hacktivists might - especially if you broaden the opponents to include hate groups and rapacious multinationals. Marcus Sakey

Today Government You Hate Broaden Easy Weapons Physical See Bear Purpose Arms How Opponents Same Against Might Theoretical Hard Multinational Groups Include Right Serving Defend Imagine

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose. Marian Wright Edelman

Weapons Purpose Redeeming Socially

There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existence, and the other is to get out there and find purpose for yourself. Mariella Frostrup

You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.' Marina Abramovic

Life You You Can Do It Fear My Life Mirror Stage Pain Difficulties Our Our Lives Tell See Purpose Through Performance Primordial Audience Go Artist Front Dying Which Them Then Certain Your Yours Lives

Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee. Mark Hanna

Other Benefit Mutual Purpose Employee Employer Than Any Organize

My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young. Mark Helprin

Me Memory Father Backwards Made Young Down Every Saw Way Photographic Somehow Purpose Schedule He Document Him Read His Germany Trained Wall Commit Being Famous Upside Upside Down Captured

I can't say what people use the experience of listening to songs for, but I would never tell somebody what it is supposed to mean. That defeats the purpose of making it. Hopefully, whoever connects with it connects with it in their own way, and it can mean whatever it is supposed to mean to them. Mark Lanegan

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it. Marlo Thomas

Strength Journey Family Feelings Our Way Our Lives Out Find Able About Only Purpose Could Through Talk Gotten Praying Being Realizing Deep Express Found Lives

The practical case for manned spacef light gets ever-weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturisation - indeed, as a scientist or practical man, I see little purpose in sending people into space at all. But as a human being, I'm an enthusiast for manned missions. Martin Rees

Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose. Mary Gauthier

Me Gave Purpose Recovery Songwriting Stabilized

If we can recycle a valuable product that serves an important purpose - and create jobs in the process - then why wouldn't we? Well, that's exactly what fly ash offers. Matt Rosendale

Fly Valuable Important Jobs Exactly Exactly What Purpose Recycle Well Offers Process Then Create Product Why Serve

If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up. Maurice Sendak

Life Work Me Live Gave Secret Frank Critical My Friend Purpose Could Adult Anne Make Because Vulnerable Were Friend Up Die Children Wanted Them Grow Grow Up

My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people. Maurice Strong

Life Needs People Meet Economic Purpose Economic Life Social Belief

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