#purpose

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. ↗

— Alan Paton

#books #die #end #hard #human

I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us. ↗

— Jeremy Paxton

#drove #effect #extraordinary #find #how

As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#any #between #done #first #fraternity

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#award #cannot #difficult #i #ideals

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#every #program #purposes #two #which

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#purpose #wanderer

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#me #passion #poetry #purpose

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. ↗

— Colin Powell

#last #our #our people #people #politics

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

#also #council #demands #doubted #enforced

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#country #flows #group #interests #larger