Pure Quotes

There is only one kind of life insurance, and that is pure protection based on a mortality table. All others are pure protection plus a cash value element that I call 'funny' banking.

It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.

The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem.

I think pure light has something to do with actually seeing everything at once. It's kind of a nirvana of sorts.

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

The one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter the chaste and pure region of the heart.

Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship.

A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door; But not, like snail, with silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back.

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

God is love and doesn't ask for anything back in return. So it's that process of letting go and just allowing, and just being in that pure state.

I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.

The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.

To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.

Pure and simple, any person who is enjoying life is a success.

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.

O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!

Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.

It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.

If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.

Feed your mind with the good, the clean, the pure, the powerful, and the positive

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

So, without telling any of my Zen-snob buddies, I liked to pretend everything was the Pure Land, that my life was already perfect as it was.

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly’s wings assures me of a pure, innocent world

I am intrigued by the beauty of love.I was moved by the love of beauty.

To fight with demons, your intent must be pure. And even then, there's no guarantee you'll win.

A dog's love is only second to that of a mother's.

We are angels just like the rest of our brothers and sisters.

There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.

The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.

Kindness is the fragrance of pure love.

Pure heart begets pure thoughts.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.