A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

The purpose of your life fits into a much larger, cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

Panda - We're not really selling Chinese food, you know. Our real purpose is about developing people.

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.

No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

The purpose of our military is to field the finest troops possible to defend our nation and win wars.

Take a firm grasp on God’s sovereignty and trust His love even when you don’t understand His purpose.

The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things.

The whole purpose of filmmaking is to entertain the viewers and when it happens, it gives you a high.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

I think that I have a seriousness of purpose, a lot of support, and a healthy amount of good fortune.

If the nuclear program is indeed meant only for civil purposes, then it is wrong to impose sanctions.

Life's trials are not easy. But in God's will, each has a purpose. Often He uses them to enlarge you.

Have a life that matters. A life with purpose. Find your own way but don't lose sight of the journey.

A man of purpose focuses on his destination, not his situation. Don't let your situation mislead you!

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

When I get angry, it's with purpose. My purpose is to solve a problem. And I never lose sight of that.

Not only do our prayers please God, the Holy Spirit uses them to accomplish heaven’s purpose on earth.

I had purpose in my heart that I would stand up for the truth regardless of what I might lose in life.

RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you

You don't decide what your purpose is in life you discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series 'on purpose' ?

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.

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