Pastoral Resources

Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.

The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

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.

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.