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I think punditry serves no purpose. -- Nate Silver
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. -- Ovid
If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose. -- Jewel
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. -- Khalil Gibran
One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun. -- Craig Brown
For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. -- John Cage
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? -- Charles M. Schulz
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. -- Richard Dawkins
Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose. -- Virgil
How can I fail when I have no purpose? -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake. -- Paula Scher
Blame has no purpose, and it is a lousy teacher. -- John Yokoyama
We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one. -- Kurt Vonnegut
There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do. -- Winston Churchill
The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose. -- T. D. Jakes
I see no purpose in Bad Coffee, Bad Wine, or Insincere friends. -- Edward L. Morse
America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God. -- Calvin Coolidge
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever. -- Cesare Pavese
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength. -- John Milton
I think there's no purpose for writing music if it is not meaningful. -- Darren Fletcher
The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening. -- Tony Parsons
Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them. -- Kate Atkinson
Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me. -- Timo Tjahjanto
I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose. -- Cassandra Clare
The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose. -- Lauren DeStefano
The head has no purpose in the golf swing. It simply goes where the body takes it -- George Knudson
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose. -- Moliere
The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one. -- Irwin Edman
The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose. -- Mother Teresa
Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting. -- James Rickards
Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone. -- Che Guevara
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. -- Steven Grayhm
Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process -- Gerald Edelman
Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us. -- John Ashbery
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves. -- John Tillotson
Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. -- Rick Warren
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose. -- Bertolt Brecht
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness. -- Jean Paul
Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) -- Benjamin Constant
As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely. -- Chinua Achebe
The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it. -- Ann Aguirre
Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you -- George R. R. Martin
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. -- Viktor E. Frankl
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. -- Simone Weil
Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work? -- William Allingham
There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us. -- E. O. Wilson
Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see -- Seth Grahame-Smith
People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work. -- Marcus Aurelius
They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose. -- Albert Camus
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death. -- Sarah Strohmeyer
I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado. -- Miguel Syjuco
You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose. -- Grant Cardone
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place. -- Eckhart Tolle
As long as we want to be different from what God wants us to be at the time, we are only tormenting ourselves to no purpose. -- Gerhard Tersteegen
Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death. -- Chester Himes
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will. -- James Thomson
If a man doesn't have a dream, then he has nothing to work for. Nothing to get up in the morning. No reason, no purpose, to be -- Kai Greene
I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on 'Ilustrado.' -- Miguel Syjuco
Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other. -- Camilo Jose Cela
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road. -- Thomas Carlyle
If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man. -- Aristotle
To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose but to pass the time. -- Stephen Richards
Make the whole life a game. There is no purpose there is no aim, nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game. that is worship, which is celebration. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose. -- Richard M. Nixon
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. -- Lisa Marie Presley
My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live. -- Veronica Roth
No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick! -- Rumi
I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in musing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose. -- John Clare
Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than the other? Absolutely not. I think they both fulfill functions. -- Paula Scher
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The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God. -- Calvin Coolidge
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose. -- Chris Hughes
If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose. -- Gregory David Roberts
I think I lot of young people feel like they have no purpose, so I try to enlighten them with my life and show them you can do whatever you put your mind to. -- Rahki
Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going. -- Joan Robinson
I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand. -- Richard Flanagan
I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless. -- George Harrison
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Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose. We may deduce consequences, and never be the wiser. -- David Berman
Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should not be hindered and weighed down by a mechanical servility to such rules. -- Federico Zuccari
Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose; we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit. -- Thomas a Kempis
Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise of the imagination analogous to the exercising of the physical body to no purpose other than ecstatic release. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I'm done with the shows about "women got murdered by husband." My wife watches them constantly, but it makes me want to kill myself. They serve no purpose. They're not news shows. They just exploit all of these murder victims. -- Billy Lawrence
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught. -- Khalil Gibran
Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn't be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was always some damn fool making up a word that served no purpose except to cause trouble. -- Forrest Carter
The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man. -- Fridtjof Nansen
Spirits were seen to be very much part of the everyday world, and you were accosted by spirits all the time. It's only really quite recently that we've relegated the fantastic as being just imagination and not real and having no purpose. -- Brian Froud
See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation - to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the death penalty. There is no purpose that it serves except to further the damage that death has already done. -- Mamie Till
It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let this punishment be severe, let it be bitter, nay let it be lasting, but let it at length have an end... -- Thomas Burnet
My feeling is that in the purest form, an actor is a service to the people. It's democratic in its purest form. That's what an actor is. If he or she isn't that, then there is no purpose in doing it. They're like priests. -- Scott Cohen
See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot. -- Alexander Pope
It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose. -- Atom Egoyan
It's one thing to be discouraged. It's another thing to have despair. Despair is when you think there's just no end to this [suffering]. There's no solution for this. Despair is when you think that your suffering has no purpose, and your suffering has no end. -- Max Lucado
What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?' 'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is. -- Stanislaw Lem
What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?' 'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is. -- Stanislaw Lem
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. -- William Temple
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. -- Stephen Fry
Those shiny eyes like the stars in the sky; but black and brown, And those beautiful lips like the flowers but sugary And those kind smells, lovable but with no purpose All meant to be for me? Someone must have been praying and wishing me the whole world -- M.F. Moonzajer
Having no purpose is the function of art, so somebody else can look at it and ask a question. Design is different - you're supposed to understand what's going on. You can be delighted by it, intrigued by it, but you're supposed to know it's a hot dog stand. -- Paula Scher
Are you mad? (Artemis) Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dominance in an adaptation to anarchy and it serves no purpose in a society that has undergone a civilising process or in an international system regulated by agreements and norms. Anything that deflates the concept of dominance is likely to drive down the frequency of fights between individuals and wars. -- Steven Pinker
Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Games have no other purpose than to please. -- Jesse Schell
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose. -- Herbie Hancock
Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. -- Michel de Montaigne
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. -- Robert South
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people. -- Sade Adu
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. -- John D. Rockefeller
Leaving 'NCIS' was not planned, so there is no plan. If I were panicking now, it would defeat the purpose. -- Cote de Pablo

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