Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
[The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God.
WhatsApp has a consistent history - from zero encryption at its inception to a succession of security issues strangely suitable for surveillance purposes.
We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves.
Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.
I think that our American people will welcome a Russian military force for peace-keeping purposes.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes.
Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.
I think there's a lot of moms who just aren't feeling protected. And that's one of the prime purposes of the federal government, is the security of our nation.
Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.
I think Bush was seen as someone who was disentangling America from the connections that it had with the outside world, that it found encumbering for domestic purposes.
I read more books for research purposes, whether its a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes.
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.
I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.
I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve worthy purposes.
In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director
I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting down with people as long as you understand that there are needs to be met and purposes to be served.
How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations.
Because of the varroa mite, wild honey bees are now, for all practical purposes, extinct in the United States.
Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.
Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.
It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.
To advocate both for more immigration and for faster wage growth for the working and middle class is to work at cross-purposes.
Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.
Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.
The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither.
'Generation Kill' was not a very glamorous shoot. For all intents and purposes, it was low budget, and all the money they had went to what you see on the screen.
That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet.
Despite the intended purpose of 911 fees, some states have diverted these resources to nonrelated or, worse yet, nonpublic safety purposes.
The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.
The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.
Religion is something that is very well intentioned, for all intents and purposes, for everyone around the world, but sometimes it can start to get warped.
In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many of them from
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.
I understand it for marketing purposes, but I've always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough.
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence.
Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.
When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he lacked wisdom.
As president, Trump's economic proposals will bend our very economy and tax system to his purposes.
Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Even when I'm having fun, I'm constantly thinking of ways to incorporate it into my WWE persona, as that way I'm serving two purposes at once.
The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.
There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.
all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.
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