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My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.
God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.
Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.
Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life.
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray
Corruption and manipulation of the ICC by foreign intelligence services subvert the original mission and purpose of the ICC.
Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love.
A soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill everyone besides myself. I felt alive. --Gaara
As long as we want to be different from what God wants us to be at the time, we are only tormenting ourselves to no purpose.
The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.
Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.
I’d like to see a forklift lift a crate of forks. It’d be so damn literal! You are using that machine to it’s exact purpose!
Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.
Men and women of every faithб and good people with none at allб sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.
Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.
Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.
The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.
Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.
Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.
It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans.
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
All good teams have that trust and that chemistry where you're able to get on each other and know it's for a better purpose.
Even if you find him. Even if he didn’t leave you on purpose, he can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him into.
Your spirit is the part of you that seeks meaning and purpose. It's the part drawn to hope, that will not give in to despair.
If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.
Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.
You're sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.
It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.
The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
When you perceive that problems serve a purpose in your life, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise.
Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.
I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.
Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and death.
I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.
Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.
I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.
Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.
One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.
Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.