#purpose

I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#afraid #case #dark #described #detainee

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#been #chosen #circumstances #continue #day

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#contents #good #grasp #how #into

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

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#extremists #family #issue #left #manipulate

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite. ↗

— George Leonard

#capacity #creative #infinite #may #practical

First and foremost, I would like to start off by saying that just because my husband is an entertainer, that does not mean that our personal business is for everyone's entertainment purposes. ↗

— Kim Mathers

#business #does #entertainer #entertainment #everyone

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted. ↗

— Gregor Mendel

#before #cannot #case #conducted #determined

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in . ↗

— David Niven

#i #i see #life #making #place

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#conversations #decision #done #historical #i