Quotes of: Noble-purpose Keyword

Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.

Charles Krauthammer

Research on the human brain has shown it is predisposed to think in the terms of a story.36 This predisposition is continuously reinforced and strengthened throughout the life of your brain. Imaging studies have shown only a small, quarter-sized regi...

Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives

Walking to the subway, Aomame kept thinking about the strangeness of the world. If, as the dowager had said, we were nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such strangely shaped lives? Wouldn’t our genetic purpose – to trans...

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Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It was time to jettison the past before the present jettisoned me. This was my first veiled attempt at recovery. Although perhaps I was just running away a...

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

America truly is the best idea for a country that anyone has ever come up with so far. Not only because we value democracy and the rights of the individual, but because we are always our own most effective voice of descent....We must never mistake di...

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world” (Acts 15:18). From the beginning God purposed to glorify Himself “in the Church by Christ Jesus, throughout all ages, world without end” (Eph. 3:21). To this end, He created the ...

The Sovereignty of God

The idea in our culture of body solely as sculpture is wrong. Body is not marble. That is not its purpose. Its purpose is to protect, contain, support and fire the spirit and soul within it, to be a repository for memory, to fill us with feeling - th...

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

The Cheese Monkeys

A written retirement plan provides an evolving foundation of social purpose and direction for personal growth.

Creative Retirement for Women

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.

The Fixer

It’s a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose . . . than when they do it by accident.

Glory Main

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

The wilderness is a place that every believer has to experience to be molded for their divine purpose.

Humbly Submitting to Change - The Wilderness Experience

Nothing good was learnt too swiftly. Knowledge should be a purposeful accumulance of observed experience, applied and tested to the full.

The Book of Fires

Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.

The Bell Jar

The moment we decide our purpose is to win is the moment we lose.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

The Book of the Law

You must nurture the force within you. You are the only person that can behold the divine force for your divine purpose.

Beautiful Quotes

I had become Harry Potter. Except I was thirteen and not magic, and my destiny, whatever it was, held no profound purpose.

Breakable

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Bo Bennett

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Dwight L. Moody