Purpose Quotes

A crowd is easier to control than an individual. A crowd has a common purpose. The purpose of the individual is always in question. [a deep insight there]
- said by Doc in Kafka

A ninja doesn't kill. He eliminates and only for defensive purposes. [cole you got it wrong, bud]
- said by Cole in Enter The Ninja

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? [no]
- said by Dracula in Black Robe

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.
- said by Socrates in Peaceful Warrior

God came to me last night and told me your purpose for being here. I am going to help you write a new book.
- said by Annie in Misery

I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.
- said by Eric Liddell in Chariots Of Fire

I'm thinking of introducing onto the market an all-purpose cake of soap that can also be used to clean teeth.
- said by Burnbridge in Champagne For Caesar

It is an army bred for a single purpose, to destroy the world of men. They will be here by nightfall.
- said by Aragorn in The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
- said by Tyler Durden in Fight Club

Now I've been shot at three times before. Twice on purpose and once by accident. And I'm still here. And I'm gonna be here for as long as I want to be.
- said by Chili Palmer in Get Shorty

Ollie, you are so ridiculous at some times, do you do it on purpose, do ya!
- said by Stan in Swiss Miss

Some things don't make sense immediately. [such as the purpose of this film, you mean, teach?]
- said by The Teacher in Kama Sutra

The purpose of our suffering is only more suffering.
- said by Eddie in Altered States

The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken
- said by Tommy Woodcock in Phar Lap

There is a purpose in having an affair if you want a thrill but not if you want hassle
- said by Charles in No Small Affair

What is life? And what is the meaning of life? Sometimes I think we wander without point nor purpose.
- said by Min-Min in Yi Yi

When you question your purpose, and nothing in life seems sacred anymore, you are in a bad place
- said by Frances in Nothing Sacred