Sentence examples for purpose nothing to from inspiring English sources

So it is, I think, with the intellectual activities of childhood: no immediate purpose, nothing to do, just long afternoons sitting around in the air-conditioning, thinking about anything, reading anything.

Schlossberg has no purpose, nothing to animate him other than falling too often in love; in one of the novel's better jokes, a Greek ship's captain tells Isaac, "You've got to get yourself a philosophy," and suggests Heraclitus to begin with, "at least until you can come up with a better one of your own".

"Most Mexicans -- and there are polls that show this -- think that it's not worth 60,000 lives and 60 billion dollars and human rights violations and terrible deterioration of Mexico's image in the world and, for all practical purposes, nothing to show for it".

Your purpose has nothing to do with what you do.

The group maintains that its purpose has nothing to do with elections and is instead a conservative free-market research organization.

Ironically, Google's participation in this project could result in it debasing its own value as a carrier of information shared by others for purposes having nothing to do with the security of the American state, both its governmental wing and the industrial sector that affects national policymaking and, via outsourcing, its technological deployments.

Indeed, Sonnet 20 seems to deny that possibility by insisting that Nature's having equipped the friend with "one thing to my purpose nothing"—that is, a penis means that physical sex must be regarded as solely in the province of the friend's relationship with women: "But since she [Nature] pricked thee out for women's pleasure, / Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure".

"If we serve the idea faithfully, with tenacity of purpose, we have nothing to fear from Russian Communism".

It insisted that its satellite program was peaceful in purpose and had nothing to do with its nuclear weapons.

More money from Government to safeguard and streamline its operation might have been a useful recommendation to make, to ensure it remains fit for purpose: nothing was said on this front.

"I am convinced the buyer is pursuing one of three goals (or all three): 1) to shut journalists up before the presidential election; 2) to whitewash his reputation; 3) to use the publication for purposes that have nothing to do with the media business".