#purpose

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

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

The purpose of a business is to create customers. ↗

— Sam Wyly

#create #customers #purpose

The purpose firm is equal to the deed. ↗

— Edward Young

#equal #firm #purpose

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#butterfly #certainly #died #expected #give

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#others #purpose #serve #warning

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#encounter #had #now #photograph #purpose

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#make #purpose #serve #world #your

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. ↗

— William Godwin

#argument #because #coercion #could #doubt