#purpose

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#awful #awful thing #blackness #complete #despair

I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#i #out #purpose #puzzle #think

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#against #another #committed #cruelty #men

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#body #give #life #live #main

All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted. ↗

— Jeff Gannon

#believed #briefings #bush #house #i

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. ↗

— James Lovelock

#changes #does #earth #life #more

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#back #bargains #been #benefit #carry

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#directly #does #either #essential #everything

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#fence #like #obstructing #purpose #serving

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy. ↗

— Juliette Gordon Low

#energies #future #girl #girl scouts #go