Permissible Purpose Quotes & Sayings

The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing. — Robyn Davidson

Always cherish your true friends who were there when no one else was. — Heather Wolf

Being a parent has been such a wonderful privilege for me. My kids make me laugh and cry, but there are definitely more laughs. They really do give my life meaning. — Jerry Hall

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. — Mahatma Gandhi

And that made me realize this: Everyone's story is different, all the time. No one is ever really together, even if it looks for a while like they — Ali Benjamin

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can. — Barry M. Goldwater

How could I possibly keep my cool while getting sweaty with him? What if I screamed out something horrifying, like "I love you?" What if I had an epileptic attack and started drooling or spitting right in the middle of things? — Jeaniene Frost

The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped
not with wealth or by war,
not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship. — Sophocles

Some of the best motivation in life is trying to impress a girl. — Tom Brady

If you never play you will never lose, but you won't win either. If you never climb a mountain you will never know for sure how good the view is. — Debbie Shapiro

Big, skinny, regular size it doesn't matter as long as your young. — Daniel Tosh

There is a great deal of illusion in a work of art; one could go farther and say that it is illusory in and of itself, as a "work." Its ambition is to make others believe that it was not made but rather simply arose, burst forth from Jupiter's head like Pallas Athena fully adorned in enchased armor. But that is only a pretense. No work has ever come into being that way. It is indeed work, artistic labor for the purpose of illusion-and now the question arises whether, given the current state of our consciousness, our comprehension, and our sense of truth, the game is still permissible, still intellectually possible, can still be taken seriously; whether the work as such, as a self-sufficient and harmonically self-contained structure, still stands in a legitimate relation to our problematical social condition, with its total insecurity and lack of harmony; whether all illusion, even the most beautiful, and especially the most beautiful, has not become a lie today. — Thomas Mann

I am really proud of what I have done for cancer awareness, but do I feel like Bono? No. — Andy Rourke

He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football — Alex Ferguson

Scientists have discovered a black hole that is 12 billion times the size of our sun. It's full of Hillary Clinton emails. — David Letterman

You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescence, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time. — Kingsley Amis

One returns to the place one came from. — Jean De La Fontaine