Top 100 On Purpose Quotes
#1. They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.
Winston Churchill
#2. Success is never an accident it's always on purpose.
T.D. Jakes
#3. God has put people in your life on purpose, Don't live to get, live to give.
Joel Osteen
#5. I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
Beck
#6. With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.
Marc Wallice
#7. To drink, to get drunk, is to lower yourself on purpose for the sake of good fellowship.
Larissa MacFarquhar
#8. We'd pluck the spiky chestnuts, leaving their green outer shells intact, and throw them at the neighbor boys.
I always took particular care in aiming for Jack's head. He told me later that he rode his bike by my house on purpose. I asked him if he liked pain.
Brodi Ashton
#9. I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.
Jared Polis
#10. He started the car, looking irked, as though I had started crying on purpose. Men seem to think that women do this on a regular basis, which is bullshit. Just because you don't feel something, it doesn't mean the other person is faking it. You know who thinks like that? Sociopaths.
Mishell Baker
#11. We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.
Mignon McLaughlin
#12. I don't believe that the Bush Administration had something to do with September 11th. I do believe that there were a lot of warning signals, but I don't think they were ignored on purpose - Bush just wanted to go to the ranch for a month.
Michael Moore
#13. I thought about falling to my knees on purpose. This was the kind of beauty you worshiped. The kind you built temples for and offered sacrifices to. I wished I had something in my empty hands to give her, but what would a goddess want from a mediocre mortal like me?
Stephenie Meyer
#14. Who had ever held Suzanne in their arms and told her that her heart, beating away in her chest, was there on purpose?
Emma Cline
#15. Even the homes we leave on purpose, the families we break away from to be ourselves or someone else, call us back again and again, to a place that has long since ceased to be home yet still holds power over us.
Rachel Friedman
#16. Killing a man by accident had made her a villain. Killing another on purpose had made her a hero. But all she could do was frown at the body as they dragged it out, and feel there was something very odd in all this.
Joe Abercrombie
#17. The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way; those who do things in this Certain Way, whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich; while those who do not do things in this Certain Way, no matter how hard they work or how able they are, remain poor.
Wallace D. Wattles
#18. I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.
Margaret Atwood
#19. I don't like anyone who comes and dies in my house on purpose to annoy me," said Lord Caterham obstinately.
Agatha Christie
#20. The universe has designed us on purpose to who we are! We are God's MASTERPIECE!
Abhishek Kumar
#21. He doesn't move at all. I think he does this on purpose. If he moved, if he even nodded, then there would be no more sides in the room. Everyone would be on the same side. They would be a team.
Matthew Dicks
#22. The Spaniard was looking at her bare legs, he was going to accidently-on-purpose hit him when Snow started misbehaving.
Jennifer Ashley
#23. Still I pulled her into a hug, because I knew she let me off the hook on purpose and yeah, I'm a guy and I love my mom. So shoot me. I'm man enough to hug her without feeling like a mama's boy.
Nyrae Dawn
#24. Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'Rourke
#25. Did I do this on purpose? What do you think? Or did I do this accidentally?
Bret Easton Ellis
#26. To grow a melody?"
"You can't grow a melody on purpose," she said, and slyly added, "you have to plant an accidental.
Gregory Maguire
#27. The aim is to produce specific results by your actions, so you begin to do things on purpose. If I leave things to chance, I am losing the plot to make success deliberate, meaning I am increasing my chances of failing in any given task.
Archibald Marwizi
#28. It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.
Cheryl Strayed
#29. And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.
Christine Lahti
#30. It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre
the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.
Angela Carter
#31. SELF
BENEATH THE SURFACE,
VEILED ON PURPOSE,
ALL KNOWING AND GRAND,
DIRECTED, GUIDED, BY THE ETERNAL HAND,
SUSTAINED, FULFILLED, FULL OF LIGHT,
REALIZATION ACHIEVED, BY WILLFUL MIGHT.
Charles Edward
#32. A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human.
Donald Miller
#33. Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards, and they do it on purpose.
Billy Connolly
#34. Somewhere along the line, I'll screw up and hurt you," he said. "Everybody does. But that's not the point."
"What's the point?"
"The point is if you believe I would never do it on purpose - and if I believe the same of you. That's how you deal with stuff.
Erica Bauermeister
#35. I believe we were created for a purpose. I believe each of us is here not by mistake, but by design. I believe each of us is here on this planet we call Earth on purpose and for a purpose. It is why I believe we are unstoppable
Thomas Narofsky
#36. There are so many ways to betray someone.
You can whisper behind his back.
You can deceive him on purpose.
You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you.
You can break a promise.
The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?
Jodi Picoult
#37. Each of us has been created by a holy God with love, on purpose and for a purpose. But so many of us feel afraid or unprepared. This is the secret, though: No one is prepared enough. No one is perfectly ready.
Shauna Niequist
#38. Reignite the fire in your heart. Live on purpose.
Dawna Markova
#39. Besides, he would know that I did it on purpose. (Serenity)
Honey, I assure you, that man won't think a thing. His mind will be on other matters. You could chop off his head and he wouldn't notice. (Kristen)
Kinley MacGregor
#40. I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.
Iggy Azalea
#41. Aidan said he'd never hurt me. Maybe he wouldn't do it on purpose, but vampires drink blood. Sooner or later, he'd want a midnight snack.
Jayde Scott
#42. They could hurt you," I insisted.
"Not on purpose. They're just teenagers. We'll be like that too one day.
Joshua Gaylord
#43. Jews can make more money accidentally than you can on purpose,
Jerry Falwell
#44. You're pretty smart for a Fed."
"I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could
get into the agency,
Diana Rowland
#45. The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
Thomas Merton
#47. And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
Larry Wall
#48. I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.
John Kricfalusi
#49. You didn't accidentally get your personality, looks and gifts. You were designed on purpose to be the way you are. You have what you need to fulfill your destiny.
Joel Osteen
#50. Sometimes I text the "wrong" person ... on purpose. Just to start a conversation.
Frank Warren
#51. Unless its done on purpose, crumbs and cleavage don't go together.
Donna Lynn Hope
#52. Of course you don't trust Braith. You don't trust anybody," Ghleanna reminded their brother. "You don't trust the air."
"Because it tends to become unseasonably chilly when I'd prefer it to be warm. It's as if it does it on purpose.
G.A. Aiken
#54. I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over, the cop looks at it [moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly], and says, "Here, you can go"
Steven Wright
#55. I can't help but feel that stuff that comes to me by chance or on purpose, whatever, tends to reflect where I am as a human being.
Kyle MacLachlan
#56. When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
Wayne Dyer
#57. Say to yourself, 'I'm here on purpose, I can accomplish anything I desire, and I do it by being in harmony with the all-pervading creative force in the universe.
Wayne Dyer
#58. God created man on purpose, and for a purpose.
Zig Ziglar
#59. Pay the price. Embrace the vision. After all, everybody ends up somewhere in life. You have the opportunity to end up somewhere on purpose.
Andy Stanley
#60. I've lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.
Ann Aguirre
#61. The Christian mythologists tell us that Christ died for the sins of the world, and that he came on Purpose to die. Would it not then have been the same if he had died of a fever or of the small pox, of old age, or of anything else?
Thomas Paine
#62. They did not set out to disappoint their father, not on purpose, but neither did they wish to shoulder the lumpy, enervating burden of the mundane.
Margaret Atwood
#63. I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.
Leon Redbone
#65. All the same, Thomas now had a plan. As bad as it was, he had a plan.
They needed more clues about the code. They needed MEMORIES.
So he was going to get stung by a Griever. Go through the Changing. On purpose.
James Dashner
#66. Do you want to join me at the park for a run?" "You run?" I asked. "On purpose?
Christina Lauren
#67. To be 'on purpose' means you're doing what you love to do, doing what you're good at, and accomplishing what's important to you.
Jack Canfield
#68. God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.
Joel Osteen
#69. You're not a whore. You're a chick who hasn't exactly grown up with every advantage, and you've learned to use what you've got. You don't do it on purpose. It's second nature. You act girly and helpless and make men think you're harmless.
Jennifer Echols
#70. We were meant to live courageous and bold lives and not lives of mediocrity. However, we have to live our lives actively and on purpose each day to be unstoppable.
Thomas Narofsky
#71. I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.
Arizona Muse
#72. The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.
Chuck Klosterman
#73. Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.
Chuck Klosterman
#74. As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#75. I fell in love with you. I didn't do it on purpose
L.J.Smith
#76. But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.
Toni Braxton
#77. He does this on purpose," Stephanie's mother said as they sat in the car, seat belts on and ready to go. They watched him appear at the front door, shrug into his jacket, tuck in his shirt, go to step out, and then pause.
"He looks like he's about to sneeze," Stephanie remarked.
Derek Landy
#78. Are you leaving the rollers in on purpose? He was concerned again.
Dove bit her lip. Her womb wanted to hump his face.
Debra Anastasia
#79. For a moment he felt like devoting the next ten years to working his way to a position as art critic on purpose to review Bertrand's work unfavorably.
Kingsley Amis
#80. If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
Bill Crawford
#81. I believe someone made a grievous mistake when summer was created; no novitiate or god in their right mind would make a season akin to hell on purpose. Someone should be fired.
Michelle Franklin
#82. You don't scream because you're scared. You scream on purpose.
Seohyun
#83. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbour, with all my crooked heart
John Green
#84. A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.
Christopher Hitchens
#85. Part of success is preparation on purpose.
Jim Rohn
#86. He had noticed my bandaged hand.
"An accident," Warthrop said tersely.
"Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife."
Von Helrung's brow knotted up in confusion. "By accident?"
"No," I answered. "That part was on purpose.
Rick Yancey
#87. So yeah, it's nothing that I'm doing on purpose, I just think that the more records, the more songs that I write, the more records that I make, you're obviously going to fall into a specific style and thank God it's a style that people are into.
Kenny Chesney
#88. I definitely feel I'm outside of the polished pop girl group, which feels right. I don't think I could keep up that polished surface on purpose.
Tove Lo
#89. You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.
Tyne Daly
#90. People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.
John Higgins
#91. People come to my shows on purpose as opposed to coming to a 'comedy show.' Which was always my goal.
Mike Birbiglia
#92. You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.
Isaac Marion
#94. Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious maniac, it's all on purpose.
Stephen King
#95. As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them.
Donald Norman
#96. I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose.
Sandra Bernhard
#97. I wrote a few children's books ... not on purpose.
Steven Wright
#98. Once you start dating men with purpose instead of swag you'll become a wife on purpose
Kazeem Akintilo
#99. You're either living on purpose or living accidentally, so live ON purpose WITH purpose!
Ken Donaldson
#100. The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose.
Bill Crawford
