Purpose quotes

“- Vice President: What do you want?
- Joshua Foss: What do I want? World peace, an end to bigotry, and no more mini-malls. What am I gonna get? And I am gonna get it. That, boys and girls, is really hot.”
Raymond J. Barry - Vice President
Powers Boothe - Joshua Foss

“Why you pursue something is equally as important as what you pursue.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Lou Bloom

“- Peter Quill: Doesn't eternity get boring?
- Ego: Not if you have a purpose.”
Chris Pratt - Peter Quill
Kurt Russell - Ego

“Each nation has its purpose. The Jews, to cheat, the Turks, to do harm, us Romanians to love and suffer like Christ.”
Alexandru Bindea - Priest on the road

“- Alan Squier: I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.
- Gabrielle Maple: That, that means you've got brains!
- Alan Squier: Yes. Brains without purpose. Noise without sound, shape without substance.”
Leslie Howard - Alan Squier
Bette Davis - Gabrielle Maple

“- Arthur Dent: I've always had this feeling there was some greater purpose.
- Slartibartfast: No, that's just ordinary paranoia. Everybody in the Universe has that.
- Arthur Dent: Well if everyone has it, then perhaps it means something...”
Simon Jones - Arthur Dent
Richard Vernon - Slartibartfast

“There's nothing wrong with going nowhere, son. It's a privilege of youth.”
Kevin Costner - Gardner Barnes

“You went halfway around the world. You spent a fortune. You did terrible things. Really terrible things, Robert. And all for nothing.”
Christian Bale - Alfred Borden

“There're just so many stupid, annoying, worthless people on this planet that just, like, get in the way of what you want.”

Evan Rachel Wood - Kimberly Joyce

“Being tired of seeing the strong pick on the weak, we the P.U.N.K.S. are hereby united for one solemn, secret purpose: to protect the underdog with nerve, knowledge, strength.”
Tim Redwine - Drew Utley

“Some came mainly because we were bored at home, thought this looked like it might be fun. Some came because we were ashamed not to. Many of us came because it was the right thing to do. And all of us have seen men die. This is a different kind of army. If you look back through history you will see men fighting for pay, for women, for some other...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jeff Daniels - Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

“What's the purpose of this circle?”

Seann William Scott - Bo Duke

“- The Old Man Parker: Get the glue.
- Mother Parker: We're out of glue.
- The Old Man Parker: You used up all the glue on purpose!”

Darren McGavin - The Old Man Parker
Melinda Dillon - Mother Parker

“Here you can be something. Here is the place to build a home. But it's not the land, there's always more land. It's the idea that we all have value - you and me. What we are fighting for, in the end, we're fighting for each other.”

Jeff Daniels - Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

“- Primrose Everdeen: Just try to win. Maybe you can.
- Katniss Everdeen: Of course. Maybe I can. I am smart, you know.
- Primrose Everdeen: And you can hunt.
- Katniss Everdeen: Exactly.”
Willow Shields - Primrose Everdeen
Jennifer Lawrence - Katniss Everdeen

“- Trevor Garfield: Why do you still teach?
- Dave Childress: For the same reason as you do, for a paycheck.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Trevor Garfield
Clifton Collins Jr. - Cesar Sanchez

“My grandfather was right. I now know in my heart of hearts that people are supposed to make love. It is their main purpose in life. All those other activities - playing the violin, washing dishes, reading novels, drinking wine - are just ways of passing time, until you can make love again.”
Joshua Schaefer - Peter

“I suppose there's a time when any man, even a man like me, can find something... something bigger than himself for which he is willing to die without question, almost... almost happily.”

Errol Flynn - Jean Picard

“Cannot tell where path leads until reach end of road.”
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan

“Wish I understand human beings. Wish I understand women. Wish I understand emotions and passions. Wish I understand any of that. If I did, I woudn't have had to spend my entire life in a laboratory trying to figure out how the world works. I would've been out in the world trying to figure out why it works.”

Robin Williams - Professor Philip Brainard

“There are two kinds of officers, sir: killin' officers and murderin' officers. Killin' officers are poor old buggers that get you killed by mistake. Murderin' officers are mad, bad, old buggers that get you killed on purpose - for a country, for a religion, maybe even for a flag. You see that Major Hogan, sir? That's what I call a murderin'...” (continue)(continue reading)
Daragh O'Malley - Harper

“I have been born to reach Enlightenment and free all creatures from suffering.”

Keanu Reeves - Siddhartha

“The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Joe Fox

“- Howe: What have they done?
- Max Zorin: You discharged her, so she and her accomplice came here to kill you. Then they set fire to the office, to conceal the crime but they were trapped in the elevator and perished in the flames.
- Howe: But that means I would have to be...
- Max Zorin: Dead!”

Daniel Benzali - Howe
Christopher Walken - Max Zorin

“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there is nothing left to do, and nothing else to pursue.”
Forest Whitaker - Ghost Dog