#purpose

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application. ↗

— William Weld

#best #citizenry #contribute #government #highest

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. ↗

— Orson Welles

#does #even #experimentation #hollywood #industry

I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that. ↗

— Jack White

#definitely #embarrass #i #i love #like

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beautiful-darkness #grave #great #life #purpose

The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified. ↗

— Wayne White

#contractors #drive #had #leave #lots

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#even #finite #grasp #infinite #infinitude

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#adapted #ball #control #endeavors #game

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#consequences #form #looking #masters #may

I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter. ↗

— James Wolcott

#assume #bipartisanship #cram #difficult #down

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. ↗

— Steven Wright

#children #few #i #purpose #wrote