#purposes

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appropriate #cried #family #family values #feeling

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

— James Lovelock

#changes #does #earth #life #more

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#first thing #life #purpose #purposes #the first thing

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #around #been #before #big

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#destroying #full #here #i #la

So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#back #been #carrying #china #history

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #idea #like #lost #mushrooms

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

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

I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me. ↗

— Mark Harmon

#direct #first #first time #i #intents