#pose

So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#back #been #carrying #china #history

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#answer #ask #enough #god #i

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on. ↗

— John Eaton

#american audience #any #audience #clear #composer

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#ever #i #retire #suppose

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#ended #first #five #francisco #holiday

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey. ↗

— Charles Edison

#devote #foundation #fundamental #fundamental purpose #i

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership. ↗

— Charles Edison

#democracy #leadership #must #our #poses

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#always #being #being busy #busy #does

My uncle died in 1987. I unfortunately - I saw it happen before it happened, which was really, really hard because I was 16 years old and I thought, like, Well, I'm seeing this. I'm supposed to stop this. And I couldn't. ↗

— John Edward

#before #died #happen #happened #hard

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#both #case #complete #conviction #cover