Quotes of: Noble-purpose Keyword

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

Dune Messiah

Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.

A Dog's Purpose

Books may be irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail.

Diving Into the Wreck

I don't want to forget my origin: I'm an eternal spirit placed in a body put on this earth for only a short time to fulfill a purpose.

Eve of Awakening

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.

Envy

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

Flaubert's Parrot

...When people lose their way and lack a real purpose for living they often fall back on certain forms of escapism as a form of self-soothing...

A Familiar Rain

...the wind has a purpose - to rattle the window panes, disturb the cat and make me miss you ...

A Familiar Rain

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

A conglomerate of complicated words, they confuse, condemn and cajole, created, he is sure, for the sole purpose of fuddling the listener, which in this case is regrettably him.

Goldfish Tears

Seriously, what is the purpose? Maybe I’d feel better about walking around speaking fluent jive if I knew there was a reason for it.

Alice in Wonderland

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

The Bookshop

Your mind should be on one thing and one thing only: gaining enough power to be free to live your own purpose and not another man’s.

The Blackguard

From a very early age onwards, people's attention had been attracted to the volatile substances, characterized by strong smells or flavours, which are among the large variety of substances which form within plants; these were used partly for therapeu...

Otto Wallach

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

Chinua Achebe

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

Donald Barthelme

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

Jerzy Kosinski

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

Roy Lichtenstein

Our sisters and brothers were picked up in public by local commanders for the purpose of sex and luxury and we could do nothing.

30 Pieces