The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
You can't live if you don't eat, but you don't live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.
My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.
If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.
That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.
The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.
Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.
Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.
I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.
I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.
