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I always claim the mission workers came out too early to catch any sinners on this part of Broadway. At such an hour the sinners are still in bed resting up from their sinning of thenight before, so they will be ingood shape for more sinning a little later on.
— 1944 Runyon a' la Carte,'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown'.
The defence of internal peace and order constitutes the sacred mission of a nation's armed forces and that is what we have carried out.
francisco franco— As quoted in The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption (2006) by Clive Foss, p. 143, ISBN 1905204965
The United States, ever since its founding fathers, has had an ideal, a mission to the world. In the '40s, it sacrificed the lives of many young people to achieve the freedom of the world. Nowadays, we need to focus on democracy and free trade.
— President Bush Welcomes President García of Peru to the White House (April 23, 2007)
All you have to do is anesthetize the masses by telling them they’re an elite, that they’ve got a mission, that they’re making history, that they’re fulfilling their destiny and fighting for a better world — and they swallow it like lambs — even when a guttersnipe says it.
— The Night of the Generals (1962)
This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite love. Between its covers are the mind and heart of God; and they are for man's good, for his salvation, his guidance, his spiritual nourishment. If now I neglect my Bible, I do my soul a wrong; for the fact of this Divine message is evidence that I need it.
abbott eliot kittredge— P. 32. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.
peter kropotkin— "Words of a Rebel"; as quoted in The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues (1992) by Charles Bufe, p. 26
..In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in the name of that spirit which lives on in our teaching and in our vision of humanity and art, the spirit which can lead us Jews down the true and just path. But along the way, peoples will spill our blood, and that of others.
marc chagall— last lines of his lecture at the congress of the Jewish Scientific Institute, Vilnius 1935; as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 58
I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.
elvis costello— Everyday I Write The Book
It's not enough to have values without vision ; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler . An empowering mission statement deals with both character and competence; what you want to be and what you want to do in your life.
stephen covey— p. 113 (First Things First (1994))
The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.
claude lévi-strauss— Chapter 37 : The Apotheosis of Augustus, p.378
My life is far too precious and my mission too important to allow either to be chaotically diluted by a lack of order.
steve maraboli— p. 94 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
Sometimes I can tell the greatness of my mission with God by the resistance I am met with by the Devil.
steve maraboli— p. 144 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
This is our mission at home, to approach these future decisions without hesitation, to do our duty and to remain strong. We know the enemy, we have called him by name for the last twenty years: he is the World Jew. And we know that the Jew must die.
julius streicher— October 31, 1939 speech, quoted in "The Trial of the Germans" - Page 50 - by Eugene Davidson - History - 1997
I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty towards a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly!
jan theuninck— As quoted in Letteratour (29 November 2004) [2]
Our mission has not life of its own: only in the hands of the sending God can it truly be called mission. Not least since the missionary initiative comes from God alone.
— Transforming Mission by David J. Bosch (p. 390)
The essence of any church is its mission. The essence of God's mission is extravagant love, which Jesus Christ communicated and displayed for us on the cross.
— Lost In America by Tom Clegg (p. 20)
If we want to be on mission with God we simply must pause long enough to understand how God is on mission. Only then can we know with some degree of certainty that we are aligned as his instruments and not misaligned as his obstacles.
— Church Planting Movements by David Garrison, 2004, p. 28.
A mission statement should define the business that the organization wants to be in, not necessarily what it is in.
— p. 83 (Re-Creating the Corporation (1999))
A mission statement should define the business that the organization wants to be in, not necessarily what it is in.
— Russell L. Ackoff (1999) Re-Creating the Corporation. p. 83.
The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.
— Peter Drucker (1973) MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, Chapter 8, pg.99.
Follow the road behind the Emperor. We must build the world for Japan's sake, heaven ordered Japan to achieve this great mission.
— Quoted in "The China Monthly Review" - Page 47 - East Asia - 1917
The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
— Akio Morita (1986) Made in Japan p. 130
Generally, project management is distinguished from the general management of corporations by the mission- oriented nature of a project. A project organization will generally be terminated when the mission is accomplished
— Chris Hendrickson, Tung Au (1989) Project management for construction. p.
Every one of you deserves the same chance that I got, and my mission is to expand job opportunities for India's young people. I want to impact India's future, I want to push through transformation at a much faster pace. If half a million people [in my constituency] vote for me, I can.
— Nilekani, Bangalore movie stars and athletes, quoted on International Business Times (IBT), "From Infosys (NYSE: INFY) To Parliament: Can Two Wealthy Tech Executives Revolutionize Indian Politics By Running For High Office?", April 2, 2014.
I'm on the border of Bolivia, working for pennies Treated like a slave, the coca fields have to be ready The spirit of my people is starving, broken, and sweaty Dreaming about revolution looking at my machete But the workload is too heavy to rise up in arms And if I ran away, I know they'd probably murder my moms So I pray to Jesu Cristo when I go to the mission Process the cocaine paste, and play my position
— Immortal Technique, "Peruvian Cocaine", Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003).
"In the Navy we're concerned about health and about preserving health care because we don't get paid by the procedure. We get paid to have Marines and sailors healthy, and that's the same mission as the chiropractic profession..."
— Vice Admiral Donald C. Arthur, MD, Surgeon General of the Navy ACANews[ ]
The Derg was largely a mystery to the Americans, as it was to others. The officers of the US military mission in the Ethiopian capital knew few of its members, and those that could be identified and approached shied away from contact with the Americans.
— David A. Korn (1986), Ethiopia, the United States, and the Soviet Union, p. 7
Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.
Russell M. Nelson— Woman—Of Infinite Worth (1989)
The Church is indeed, in its real Intent,An Assembly where Nothing but Friendship is meant;And the utter Extinction of Foeship and WrathBy the Working of Love in the Strength of its Faith.This gives it its holy and catholic Name,And truly confirms its apostolic Claim;Showing what the One Saviour's One mission had been:"Go and teach all the World," — ev'ry Creature therein.In the Praise ever due to the Gospel of GraceIts Universality holds the first Place.
john byrom— "A Paraphrase on the Prayer used in The Church Liturgy for All Sorts and Conditions Of Men" St. 10 & 11; a poetic paraphrase of a prayer by Peter Gunning
Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the mission folk, to your arsenic.
bret harte— East and West Poems, Part I, The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin.
