#purposes

There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes. ↗

— John Badham

#about #attention #attention span #great #just

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#beings #designed #emotions #hopes #intended

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#experience #government #guard #liberty #most

I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#defensive #gang #i #leader #purposes

An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#abundant #body #bulk #city #conveyed

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#business #con #convention #decades #fantasy

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

— J. William Fulbright

#against #another #committed #cruelty #men

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

— James Lovelock

#changes #does #earth #life #more

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#arguing #bad #either #his way #may

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#essential #forests #healthy #land #living