All Quotes

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
‐‐ Thomas Babington Macaulay

The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.
‐‐ Leland Ryken

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.
‐‐ Leland Ryken

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
‐‐ Leland Ryken

The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.
‐‐ Clive Davis

The Purple Man helps Matt understand that his powers are unique, and maybe he is cut out for the hero biz after all. And Mr. Fear challenges Daredevil's very philosophy; how does a Man Without Fear deal with a man who induces terror in everyone he meets?
‐‐ Antony Johnston

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.
‐‐ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The purpose creates the machine.
‐‐ Arthur Young

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.
‐‐ Eric Liu

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
‐‐ Edward Young

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
‐‐ Peter Drucker

The purpose of a business is to create customers.
‐‐ Sam Wyly

The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.
‐‐ Eliezer Yudkowsky

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.
‐‐ Nhat Hanh

The purpose of all wars, is peace.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
‐‐ Ruth Benedict

The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
‐‐ Abu Abbas

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.
‐‐ Michael Moore

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
‐‐ Richard Hamming

The purpose of Disneyland is to make people smile.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.
‐‐ Marc Ostrofsky

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
‐‐ Harold Rosenberg

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.
‐‐ Tristram Stuart

The purpose of fear, clearly, is to help you get away - which it does. If your heart rate increases, there is more blood pumping so you can use that blood to fuel your muscles to run away. Oxygen is sent to the lungs so you can run fast. Pupils dilating help you see in the dark. All of that prepares your body to fight or escape.
‐‐ Sy Montgomery

The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you!
‐‐ Elizabeth Strout

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
‐‐ Aneurin Bevan

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
‐‐ Alexander Alekhine

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
‐‐ Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
‐‐ Mortimer Adler

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
‐‐ Robert Byrne

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
‐‐ Rainer Maria Rilke

The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.
‐‐ Leo Buscaglia

The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.
‐‐ Mike White

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.
‐‐ Henepola Gunaratana

The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.
‐‐ Kelsang Gyatso

The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you've saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.
‐‐ Derek Sivers

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
‐‐ Ayn Rand

The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.
‐‐ Terrence Howard