The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.
I think we'll see, not only with Glass, but the watch wearables, with the contact lens, that each of these things have their own best purpose, but it will take more on our part and society's part to figure out what that is.
There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact.
The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
I think one purpose is very clear among corporations and business leaders: make profits, deliver high return for stockholders, conquer markets, service consumers and create jobs. But in today's world, demands from corporations and leaders are much more than that. We need to understand what people really want at the very end.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it.
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.
Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.
I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.
Everyone is looking for a purpose in life. The reason we all go to the cinema or online is because we haven't found a purpose yet. We are always wondering why we're here. But I've learned that we have to create that purpose for ourselves.
The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.
The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.
My purpose as an artist is to heal the divided feminine in our culture. Well, okay wait, that sounds incredibly cheesy and like something a massage therapist might do at Esalen.
