Top 98 Purposely Quotes
#1. I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.
Malcolm X
#2. And a lesson in this movie is dig beneath the surface. And so with my words, with my character, I purposely created a character that was away from how you've known me thus far in my career.
Shemar Moore
#3. A lot of men are very sloppy with the way they cheat. You can get caught from your cell phone or hanging around the wrong people while you're doing your dirt. Or you can get caught after a woman purposely leaves something in your car.
Tyrese Gibson
#4. Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered.
Where do you get your ideas?
I purposely mishear things.
Harlan Ellison
#6. Psychopathic workers very often were identified as the source of departmental conflicts, in many cases, purposely setting people up in conflict with each other. "She tells some people one story, and then a totally different story to others.
Paul Babiak
#7. I've even purposely looked for stories full of exactly this kind of angst, because I love the emotion behind it so much.
Rachel Hollis
#8. I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software ... that you can't fully test it.
Will Wright
#9. The funny thing is, I was never purposely blonde. I just got highlights, and then you get highlights over highlights, and then it looks like you're blonde.
Cheri Oteri
#10. But I also believe that a person's character can be revealed within moments of the acquaintance, unless he purposely tries to hide it".
Jennifer K. Clark
#11. No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there.
Clint Eastwood
#12. The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more unbalanced and detached psychologies.
Bryant McGill
#13. I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.
William Shakespeare
#14. The good news is that every morning we have the choice; not to be controlled by circumstances nor our past but by purposely designing our day, hence our lives better. Not to react to life but to respond with love.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#15. There were times when I purposely didn't go to school because of Pearl Harbor Day, because certainly there was enough media about it every year to remind everybody. So when I heard they were going to make the movie, I thought, "Oh, no, please not another Pearl Harbor mention!"
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#16. Sometimes,indeed, the Lord purposely leaves his children, withdraws the divine inflowings of his grace, and permits them to begin to sink, in order that they may understand that faith is not their own work.
(Sermon, "Mr. fearing comforted")
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#17. If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.
Patrick Ness
#18. I know from experience Dev, purposely breaking a man and leaving him with nothing left to live for can be a very dangerous thing.
-Moe
Ashley Jade
#19. During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.
Scott Stossel
#20. The world class purposely ignores the small thinking, ego-based personality
Steve Siebold
#21. Look in the rearview mirror long enough & you'll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you've been-even when it seemed you'd taken a wrong turn.
Mark Batterson
#22. I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like ... I would definitely do that.
Jack White
#23. How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?
Ellen Hopkins
#24. He listened to the shhk of metal sliding home, then turned to find Lila waiting, her back purposely to the tavern, as if her present were already her past.
V.E Schwab
#25. The itinerary of most antiquities from their source - tomb, temple, quarry - to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed.
Peter Landesman
#26. Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing. But it seemed to me purposely awkward. It's almost as if I made the labor part of writing.
Vito Acconci
#27. It's always been a struggle to differentiate myself, but I like my parents. I enjoy doing events with them, and I don't feel I should purposely avoid something just for the sake of being different.
Jesse Kellerman
#28. When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
Charles Caleb Colton
#29. People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.
Johan Huizinga
#31. Folks should be able to harvest, store, use, or sell their own energy as they see fit. This is not a Democratic nor Republican issue, and if anyone tries to convince you it is, they are being purposely misleading.
Mark Ruffalo
#32. We might even purposely create time for boredom on a summer day, so they have to go to the garage and see what interesting fun they can have with a pulley, some rope, and a roll of duct tape.
Daniel J. Siegel
#33. I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks.
Jane Austen
#34. Next week John Boehner will be sitting behind Barack Obama at the State of the Union address. I think Obama should purposely try to embarrass him by telling the story of 'Old Yeller.' The state of our Union is strong, but not so good for one special dog.'
Bill Maher
#35. I don't purposely push the boundaries ... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.
Patrick Ness
#36. We cut ourselves. Not by accident, we do it purposely, and regularly, because physical pain is comforting, and because now it has become a habit.
Shelly Stoehr
#37. I honestly, purposely have not gone to therapy because I know some crazy stuff's going to be dragged up and, you know, I'll be like, 'Wait, what?'
Jimmy Fallon
#38. Each person has the potential to be good and productive, yet I also know that many people never begin to tap their true potential. It is human nature to surrender to the lowest common denominator. We must purposely strive to move ahead and achieve.
John Patrick Hickey
#39. I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
Barbara Kruger
#40. The more vulgar apologists for U.S. and Israeli crimes solemnly explain that, while Arabs purposely kill civilians, the U.S. and Israel, being democratic societies, do not intend to do so. Their
Noam Chomsky
#41. Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.
Amy Poehler
#42. I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.
Travis Barker
#43. Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.
Kristin Hannah
#44. God purposely hides truth so that only a worthy seeker can discover the hidden treasures of His Word (Prov. 25:2).
Anonymous
#45. I'm not a fan of purposely farting in front of other people. If you have to fart, leave the room.
Tina Fey
#46. 'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.
Rachel Gibson
#47. We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.
George Saunders
#48. I stepped inside the front hall and kicked off my snow boots. I slammed the door behind me, making the dark ruby and emerald glass shake in the small leaded panes. I slid purposely on the hall rug, causing it to bunch and crinkle on the slippery polished oak of the floor.
Margaret Laurence
#49. Dead is dead, we know where to file another person's extinction, but the artist purposely zoomed in on the living, or, to be more accurate, the forced-to-be-living and the soon-to-be-dead. Grainy
Gary Shteyngart
#50. I'll become stronger by purposely facing what I am afraid of. It's OK that I'm anxious right now. I can handle these sensations. I can handle this uncertainty. I want this anxiety. I want this uncertainty. Love the mat. Run toward the roar.
R. Reid Wilson
#51. Things don't like me. Furniture purposely sticks out its leg for me. A polished corner once literally bit me. My blanket and I have always had a complicated relationship.
Yury Olesha
#53. I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written' ... It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.
Aldo Leopold
#54. I felt like I was a good woman, a good person. But I was sinking deeper and deeper into depression, because my soul wasn't living. I was purposely holding down my soul and my spirit. It was dying inside of me.
Evangeline Lilly
#55. I don't think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.
Rush Limbaugh
#56. The problem is that when you purposely want to forget someone, you remember them the most.
K. Bromberg
#57. I've always considered myself a good person. I've never done anything to purposely hurt anyone. I was in shock that this happened to me, and because it did, I turned into this vengeful person. I've never truly hated anyone, but I was glad when I saw him lying there on the floor.
Maya Banks
#58. The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice about something that might offend Christians.
Tim LaHaye
#59. A coward purposely performs poorly to blame others for their own failures.
Ben Tolosa
#60. Protect your vision. Prevail over adversity. Persevere in the midst of turmoil. Passionately act upon your convictions. Purposely walk into the day.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#61. It wasn't like he was purposely being an asshole. It just came naturally to him.
R.L. Mathewson
#62. I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious
unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.
Mark Twain
#63. I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.
Ellen Hopkins
#64. I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.
Jenson Button
#65. I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark.
Jane Mayer
#66. Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived.
Liane Moriarty
#67. The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own.
Gary Gygax
#68. The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
Saint Basil
#69. Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody.
E. J. W. Barber
#70. I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve.
Dave Eggers
#71. Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely
Will Rogers
#72. If we are to find contentment in the midst of trial and uncertainty, we must accept our situation as being purposely allowed into our lives by a personal and loving God.
Linda Dillow
#73. Hi, you've reached Caitlin! I'm either on the other line or I'm purposely ignoring you. Or maybe Mrs. Mitchell confiscated my phone for texting in class again ... Leave a message and if I deem you worthy, or at least hot, I'll call you back. Mwah!
Mari Mancusi
#74. I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money.
Joel Osteen
#75. There are many females in my life I couldn't function on a daily basis without who I've purposely put there that work with me.
Iggy Azalea
#76. You won't be my client forever, Dom, but you will be a cop for the foreseeable future. I already lost someone I cared about and I barely came back from the pain of that. I'm not a strong enough man to care about someone that purposely puts themselves at risk . . . even if you are more than tempting.
Jay Crownover
#77. In the midst of embracing life secrets, you will remain purposely guided - throughout your life.
Eleesha
#78. Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.
Ron Paul
#79. Mom led Jaime down a hall of crystal cabinets and ushered him into the floral armchair that Theo had once purposely peed on as a kid. The pee story was the first out of their mom's mouth. Whatever. He'd been four. Mom should have given him the cookie.
Anyta Sunday
#80. I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.
Naomie Harris
#81. To purposely concoct older characters of a sunny disposition would be as much of a solecism as deliberately fabricating arrhythmic blacks, spendthrift Jews, slacker Japanese and so on.
Will Self
#82. We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.
Horace Mann
#83. I am the proud indentured servant of a brilliant art adviser who may or may not have purposely stapled my index finger to a manila folder
Sloane Crosley
#84. Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?
Richelle Mead
#85. Caught him grinning at her. Why do you purposely aggravate
Nora Roberts
#86. Like all persecuted minority groups, they strike back by forming cabals, by "taking over" certain spheres of activity (in the arts, for instance), and by purposely provocative behavior.
Sydney J. Harris
#87. If you do things to the limit, and don't purposely go over that limit, then I think it's fine to do whatever you want. So long as you enjoy it. That's what's important.
Michael Schumacher
#88. Girls are always getting mad at each other and they tell their hairdresser to purposely mess up another girl's hair.
Yoon Mi-rae
#89. the public is defrauded when it is purposely misled. Poor public! how often is it misled! against what a world of fraud has it to contend!
Anthony Trollope
#90. Most paths of self-correction purposely increase the effort and struggle to achieve these states or vibrations. They insist that you must 'earn it' or 'handle it' or 'surrender to it' or 'get it' when the truth is you already have immediate access to all of it.
Frank Natale
#91. I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
Yvon Chouinard
#92. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs.
Pierre-Paul Grasse
#93. A novel is purposely a-philosophic, even anti-philosophic, fiercely independent of any system of preconceived ideas, it questions, it marvels, it doesn't judge, nor proclaims truths.
Milan Kundera
#94. I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I purposely and militantly put the smoking scenes in the movies.
Chris Hayes
#95. We have purposely trained him wrong, as a joke.
Master Tang
#96. Life is sometimes very complicated, but we can purposely learn to enjoy the simple yet powerful and beautiful things God has created!
Joyce Meyer
#97. All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other conditions could produce it, and for the spreading of this condensed depravity and vice broadcast among the whole population.
Leo Tolstoy
#98. Do you serve a purpose, or purposely serve?
Corey Taylor
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