Pure Quotes

If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.

It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.

It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling, "Will you look at that golf path?Pure pea gravel."

As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.

She's so pure, Moses couldn't even part her knees.

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled, then shall she wander for a time in pain and despair.

Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!

We didn’t want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive. It’s very rare to be able to do that. It’s completely pure.

When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.

When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.

A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.

A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.

Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!

Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.

I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.

Most Kabbalists were theorists who were interested only in pure meditation. But there were so-called 'practical Kabbalists' who tried to apply the power of the Kabbalah in everyday life.