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“I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.”

“If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.”

Ifs Running Teaching Research Organization Missions Physics Empowering More Time Empowering Women Nonprofits Cambodia

Author:Alan Lightman

“I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.”

People Thinking Way Writing Shows Reading Literature Taste Average Various Entertainment Missions

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.”

People Want Kind Book Soul Helping Dream Literature Realizing Worst Reader Horror Office Highest Intention Depth Workers Missions Saved Hated Boss Great Literature Repulsion

Author:Ernesto Sabato

“Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.”

Body Perfect Becoming Missions Personal Mission

Book:Bodies

Source: Bodies

“In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.”

Growing Unity Missions My Time Canterbury

Author:George Carey

“I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.”

I Can Home Numbers Worry Focus Missions

Author:John R. Allen

“Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.”

Missions Civilians Cornerstones Afghan

Author:John R. Allen

“At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.”

Ifs Character Three Names Five Definitions Missions Lists Code Requirements Costumes Superhero Superpower Milieu

Author:Kurt Busiek

“Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.”

Giving Motivation Company Information Computer Connections Missions Google

Author:Paul Buchheit

“The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.”

Bigs Government Growing Missions Resistance Creeps Big Government Backlash

Author:Bob Barr

“My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.”

Giving Self Able Girl Tools Missions Best Self

Author:Elizabeth Berkley

“Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love.”

Impossible Missions Australia Mission Impossible

Author:Jane Badler

“I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.”

Organization Missions Back When Demoralized

Author:Peter Diamandis

“I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.”

Believe Stills Strong Business Fundamentals Missions Very Strong I Still Believe

Author:James Daly

“I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.”

Missions Scent Signatures

Author:Lexa Doig

“I should probably confess that ice cream is my favorite food, and I eat it every night. When I go grocery shopping, I try to buy a new flavor, rather than reverting back to a favorite flavor. I'm on a mission to taste every flavor of ice cream out there!”

Should Trying Night Taste My Favorite Missions Ice Shopping Every Night Cream Flavor Ice Cream Groceries Grocery Shopping Favorite Foods Reverting

Author:Becca Fitzpatrick

“Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.”

Knows Book Stories Dies Black Fire Hair Definitions Missions Bones Holes Beach Convince Over It Fabulous Galaxy Black Hole

Author:Dorothea Benton Frank

“I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health' or go on bike rides with Lance Armstrong. I'm not. Trust me.”

Men Running Goes On Models Missions Bike Marathon Trust Me Armstrong Paragon

Author:Duff Goldman

“To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.”

Higher Institutions Size Missions Statements Diverse Ecosystems Tag Higher Education Price Tag Mission Statement

Author:Gordon Gee

“I would hope to get together with the Latino community, if I could ever have them talk to me without screaming and threatening me. So I hope to get together with the community and try to explain what we do, so that's going to be one of my missions coming up.”

Ifs Trying Together Community Missions If I Could Threatening Latino Talk To Me Get Together

Author:Joe Arpaio

“I'm gonna see 'Mission Impossible' Part 9 because I like Tom Cruise movies! But just because the box office has that one receipt from the ticket I purchased, doesn't mean it represents someone who liked it.”

Mean Impossible Office Boxes Missions Toms Tickets Cruise Box Office Receipts Mission Impossible

Author:Sean Patrick Flanery

“Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to establish this required truth. We therefore have phenomena called 'peace missions' and the 'peace process'. These are terms that apply to whatever the United States happens to be doing or advocating at some moment... in short, 'War is Peace'.”

War States Moments Happens Political Language Process Term United United States Democracy Media Tasks Historical Profound Missions Yearning Engineering Advocating

Author:Noam Chomsky

“He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier, he's gonna check us all on out of here. Up to that mansion on a hill, where you can get your prescription filled.”

Mercy Filled Missions Checks Hills Frontiers Prescriptions Mansions New Frontiers

Author:John Hiatt

“Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina's chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency's broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health.”

Lines Special Encouragement Add South Ill Population Missions Agency Portions Nevertheless Carolina Public Health South Carolina

Author:Nikki Haley

“I think we've bounced back and really been resilient. Even after a bad period, we take over and we seem like we're on a mission. That comes with leadership and experience and a lot of things. A lot of it is mental toughness and resiliency in the situation you're at, just trusting in your teammates.”

Thinking Seems Situation Periods Missions Hockey Teammate Resilient Toughness Resiliency Mental Toughness Sports Mental Toughness

Author:Mike Fisher

“I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.”

Thinking Two Important Taste Missions Missions In Life

Author:David Coverdale

“I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.”

Might Performances Missions Energetic Live Performance

Author:John Fogerty

“A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.”

World Humanity Jesus Church Judging Missions Contemporary Dialogue

Author:Claudio Hummes

“If I'm a leader, I have a mission.”

Ifs Leader Missions

Author:Russel Honore

“We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.”

Ifs Enjoy Forget Accepting Democracy Rights Privilege Missions Never Forget Denied Globes Expanding Basic Rights

Author:James Inhofe

“My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.”

World Trying Life Is Missions Affected Outside World Missions In Life

Author:Jeremy Jackson

“We are in a time when the Peace Corps mission is more vital than ever, and the organization is at a 30-year high in the number of volunteers in the field. The Peace Corps is currently in 69 posts and serving 75 countries across the globe.”

Years Country Numbers Fields Organization Missions Posts Serving Globes Volunteer Peace Corps

Author:Kenny Marchant

“Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."”

Men Feels Looks Doe Eye Turns Women Cases Example Blind Missions Her Eyes Glances Inviting Tantalizing

Book:Six Characters in Search of an Author

Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author

“Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space, we will find liberation from tyranny, from scarcity, from ignorance and from war. We will find the means to protect this Earth and to nurture every human life, and to explore the universe. . . .This is our mission, this is our destiny.”

Source: Ronald Reagan

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