#purpose

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian. ↗

— Ama Ata Aidoo

#artist #authoritarianism #corruption #embarrass #expose

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild. ↗

— Alan Autry

#cannot #decades #enthusiasm #immediately #must

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

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

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#emerge #independent #purpose #unconscious

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose. ↗

— Roland Emmerich

#bad #makes #nobody #purpose

I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy. ↗

— Sandra Fluke

#consequences #contraception #cover #dire #does

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians. ↗

— Luke Ford

#christians #did #good #good people #i

With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office. ↗

— Marc Wallice

#around #attacked #did #feel #go

When you're in love, you've found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and suddenly it's completely apparent it's not. You have to rethink your whole purpose. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#completely #found #going #life #love