"If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means."

-- Alan Bennett

#Work Quotes #Mean Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.”

Source : Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.37, A&C Black
“If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.”
“There are certain movies you go and see, and then after, you wanna go home and talk to your best friend and tell her that you really love her.”
“This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.”
“Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion”
“I think we need people in Washington who really have more of a sense of a George Washington approach to it, which is to serve and go home. I think far too many of both parties see it as a career. And I don't think that's good for our country.”

Source : "Lawmaker calls Buffett's bluff". Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. anuary 13, 2012.
“It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right, and to which he was influenced, more or less, by that belief.”

Source : Thomas Reid (1827). “Essays on the powers of the human mind: An essay on quantity. An analysis of Aristotl's logic”, p.630
“You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.”

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