Free purpose sayings, quotes and quotations
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
~purpose sayings by Sydney J. Harris
The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money
~inspirational sayings about Graduation quotes by Author Unknown
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive - a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society - a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
~purpose quotes by Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957 (Thank you, Mary.)
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
~famous quotes about Humankind by Bertrand Russell
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
~purpose sayings by Napoleon Hill
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
~purpose sayings by Anatole France
You can have anything you want ?if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
~inspirational sayings about Determination quotes by Abraham Lincoln
If the universe has any purpose more important then topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I have never heard of it
~purpose quotes by Rabert A. Henlein Lazarus Long
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
~famous quotes about Integrity by Jean Baptiste Molière, Le Misanthrope
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.
~purpose sayings by Lewis H. Lapham, Money and Class in America, 1988
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
~purpose sayings by Henry Steele Commager
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old. Malcolm Muggeridge, on pornography, Tread Softly For You Tread On My Jokes, 1966
~inspirational sayings about Sex quotes by
If Heaven made him - earth can find some use for him.
~purpose quotes by Chinese Proverb
This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
~famous quotes about Helping by George Bernard Shaw
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~purpose sayings by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818
My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.
~purpose sayings by Liberace
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
~good sayings about Jobs by Douglas Adams
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
~purpose quotes by Peter Drucker
The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents
~motivational quotes about Mothers Day sayings by John J. Plomp
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
~purpose sayings by Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
Music is the universal language of mankind.
~purpose sayings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
~good sayings about Writing by Lord Byron
I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.
~purpose quotes by William Albert Allard, The Photographic Essay
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
~motivational quotes about Honesty sayings by Abraham Lincoln
Waste is a tax on the whole people.
~purpose sayings by Albert W. Atwood
The best way out of a problem is through it.
~purpose sayings by Author Unknown
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
~good sayings about Politics by Cissy Farenthold
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.
~purpose quotes by Tim McCarver, who caught all of Steve Carlton's games, 1977
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
~motivational quotes about Imagination sayings by Pablo Picasso
Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.
~purpose sayings by Jefferson Machamer
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman.
~purpose sayings by Nancy Astor, My Two Countries
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is
~good sayings about Comedy by Horace Walpole
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
~purpose quotes by Humphrey Bogart
To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to b and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt...that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love
~motivational quotes about Love sayings by Helen Keller
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
~purpose sayings by John Lancaster Spalding
Plenty of quotations,sayings and quotes categories
{ sayings for deceased people } { reading quotes } { sayings on children } { great photographers sayings } { famous parties } { teenagers quotes } { quotes about complaining } { crying sayings } { sayings about heartache } { quotations on organ donations } { famous insects } { single quotes sayings } { learning sayings } { effort sayings } { quotes about teachers } { weather sayings or beliefs } { nice brother saying } { poverty quotes } { sayings about the night } { soccer quotes or sayings } { poker quotes } { scrapbooking sayings } { quotes sayings nurses } { revenge sayings } { great quotes about life } { nostalgic quotes } { old sayings } { abraham lincoln logic quotes } { great quotations } { complaining quotes }