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If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

Harold MacMillan

People

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

Ernst Mach

Purpose

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Vince Lombardi

Success

Purpose

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?

Sex appeal is not on purpose.

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

David Livingstone

Purpose

End

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

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.

Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.

Arthur Levitt

Purpose

You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.

James Levine

Purpose

Will