6,483 Quotes About Purpose

It is by that which cannot be taken away that we can measure ourselves.

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged.

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.