#purpose

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#cranking #death #i #like #million

As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#business #concerned #far #i #making

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible. ↗

— Maimonides

#belong #depreciation #desires #far #law

I have myself no more doubt that these metals were prepared by the Almighty for this very purpose, than I have that iron and coal were prepared for the purposes in which they are being used. ↗

— Hugh McCulloch

#being #being used #coal #doubt #i

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#freedom #gifts #opportunity #our #our people

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#champagne #enjoy #having #host #over

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#eat #exception #humans #like #only

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#american #american government #bad #encourage #goals

In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#abroad #along #article #attempts #been

I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#appropriations #avoid #awkward #cash #clients