Purity famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.
-- Anselm of Canterbury -
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
-- Barry Mann -
There is only a single step between impurity and purity.
-- Berl Katznelson -
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]
-- Blaise Pascal -
Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.
-- Catherine Doherty -
[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.
-- Charles Baxter -
Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.
-- Charles Robert Maturin -
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
-- David Hare -
Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.
-- Dennis Lehane -
All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
-- Derek Jarman -
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.
-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward -
Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom.
-- Eric Ludy -
Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence.
-- Fatima bint Muhammad -
Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief).
-- Fatima bint Muhammad -
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.
-- Federico Fellini -
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
-- Fisher Ames -
We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.
-- Flora Thompson -
Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.
-- Gautama Buddha -
The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
-- Gautama Buddha -
In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.
-- George Washington -
Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
-- Georges Bernanos -
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
-- Guillaume Apollinaire -
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
-- Guillaume Apollinaire -
No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter ,sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.
-- Guru Nanak -
it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.
-- Harriet Martineau -
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.
-- Horace Walpole -
I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs propelling us to connect as the fiercely gracious human beings we are.
-- Irwin Kula -
I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.
-- Jacques Lacan -
The primordial purity of the ground completely transcends words, concepts, and formulations.
-- Jamgon Kongtrul -
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.
-- Jean Paul -
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
-- John of the Cross -
Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.
-- John Ruskin -
Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.
-- Josemaria Escriva -
I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.
-- Josh McDowell -
During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.
-- Joshua Harris -
By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.
-- Julius Charles Hare -
A people that does not protect its racial purity will perish!
-- Julius Streicher -
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.
-- Lauren Bacall -
It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.
-- Libba Bray -
True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.
-- Libba Bray -
Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
-- Madame de Stael -
Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.
-- Marguerite Duras -
You mean was an instant of my purity worth a lifetime of your lies?
-- Mickey Knox -
doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.
-- Natalie Clifford Barney -
The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
-- Orson Scott Card -
My name, Paloma, means 'dove' in Spanish. It stands as a symbol of peace and purity.
-- Paloma Picasso -
Avoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty.
-- Paul of the Cross -
I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is.
-- Prem Rawat -
To achieve purity of mind, one should cultivate constant awareness by being mindful all the time. One should remain always aware of one's thoughts.
-- Rama Swami -
All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.
-- Robert E. Lee -
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
-- Robert Graves -
It is only by means of purity of mind can you come close to the Lord.
-- Sathya Sai Baba -
How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!
-- Smith Wigglesworth -
Peace of heart is the natural outcome of purity of heart.
-- Spiros Zodhiates -
It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other a deformed, unlovely, and a detestable God. He that saith God is not holy speaks much worse that he that saith there is no God at all.
-- Stephen Charnock -
Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.
-- Steven Levitt -
Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.
-- Theodor Adorno -
The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals
-- Theophile Gautier -
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.
-- Vijay Seshadri -
He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.
-- William Gurnall -
Purity is something that cannot be attained except by piling effort upon effort.
-- Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.
-- Deniz Gamze Erguven -
Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.
-- Ignatius of Loyola -
There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe.
-- Kehinde Wiley -
I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn’t planned; it was realism.
-- Larry Clark -
Purity without balance is its own corruption.
-- V. E. Schwab -
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.
-- Zicheng Hong -
I have never been able to let Iraq go. It is a part of me. Even under Saddam Hussein, even despite what the country went through, and despite how violent and tribal it can be, there is still a certain purity to the kindness of the population.
-- Arwa Damon -
I always knew that God's way was the best, that I wanted to wait, and that I valued purity.
-- Rebecca St. James
