All Quotes

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
‐‐ Scott Turow

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.
‐‐ Stella Young

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
‐‐ Rand Beers

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
‐‐ Paul Valery

The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.
‐‐ John Walters

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
‐‐ Michael Flanders

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
‐‐ Edward de Bono

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.
‐‐ Louis Stokes

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
‐‐ James Madison

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
‐‐ Tony Blair

The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers.
‐‐ Jim Ramstad

The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.
‐‐ Blake Farenthold

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.
‐‐ Benjamin Netanyahu

The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.
‐‐ Pete Sessions

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
‐‐ Joan Blades

The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.
‐‐ Douglas Feith

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
‐‐ Nikita Khrushchev

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
‐‐ Freeman Dyson

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.
‐‐ John Clayton

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
‐‐ Eduardo Galeano

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.
‐‐ Morihei Ueshiba

The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.
‐‐ Ricardo Semler

The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.
‐‐ Ricardo Semler

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
‐‐ Bill Watterson

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
‐‐ Robert Bork

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
‐‐ Issey Miyake

The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.
‐‐ Niger Innis

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
‐‐ Colin Powell

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.
‐‐ Chris Morris

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
‐‐ Northrop Frye

The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.
‐‐ Arthur Kornberg

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
‐‐ Bob Brown

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
‐‐ David Ogilvy

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
‐‐ Carrie Snow

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.
‐‐ Loretta Swit

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
‐‐ Malcolm Muggeridge

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.
‐‐ Archibald Hill

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
‐‐ Ralph Adams Cram

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
‐‐ Matthew Arnold

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
‐‐ E. T. Bell

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
‐‐ Albert Einstein