Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.
Stephen Baker

Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out.
Michael Scott

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
Michael Novak

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.
Arne Jacobsen

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
Mary Wortley Montagu

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
David Mamet

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
Emily Carr

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
Larry Wall

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.
Janet Napolitano

Silly sitcoms are designed to attract juveniles of all ages.
John J. O'Connor

Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.
Ginny B. Waite

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).
Paul Krugman

Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence.
Julius Wellhausen

Souls are designed to fit inside a body.
Alex Chiu

Souls are not designed to float around in thin air.
Alex Chiu

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.
Suzanne Fields

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.
Richard Neal

The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere.
Andy Hertzfeld

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.
Albert Barnes