Top 570 Pure Quotes

Justice should not admit a public’s thirst for pure revenge.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

I don’t think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers.

In terms of pure volume, I probably read more psychological mystery and historical true crime than anything else.

There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He is the highest point of the scale, pure act and active power, the purest light.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that’s pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

Through pure accident of birth, I’ve managed to stay relatively youthful.

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.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it’s so pure and powerful.

Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren’t like, ‘Did the Yankees win today?’

The Tories claim that they have changed. Their stance on foxhunting makes it absolutely clear that they haven’t. They know the public doesn’t agree with them. They know that this is about animal cruelty, pure and simple.

We humans absorb a lot of negativity in this world, but dogs are pure joy.

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.

I wanted to give people – which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really – I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet – in a very pure form.

Dance+ is a platform for Indian talent that puts a spotlight on pure, superlative, unique dancing.

When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.

I don’t know anyone who’s 100 percent pure – nor do I have any interest in portraying anyone like that.

A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.

On completing my degree, I started a Ph.D. in statistics, although I knew very little about the topic. My supervisor was Professor Harry Pitt, who was an excellent pure mathematician and probabilist.

I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

I’ve thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

I guess artists are living inspiration. There’s something very pure about a person that fantasizes. I like hearing their stories, watching them work. Their take on the world interests me. It’s not unified.

I have realised what my pitch is, and I’m in this industry for the pure reason that I love acting.

Pure Flix makes evangelistic films, but we also make family films. I think the viewer wants to see quality entertainment that the whole family can watch, and many nonbelievers watch our films because they can watch with their family and young kids.

When I am disgusted by certain American politicians, I fantasize moving away to Finland – a country in which I have worked a little, and which I see as a pure blue and green place of unpolluted lakes, peaceful forests, and pristine social-democratic values.

I think that the only pure thing we have in life is to try to be happy.

Podcasts feature comedians being as funny as they can be in a non-censored situation. It’s really akin to standup in a way. When you go see a comedian in standup, that is the most pure, unadulterated form of their art.

When you’re a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do.

What I do is that I really, really try hard to make sure the things that I do comes from a pure place in my heart and my intent is a pure one.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I’m replaying an event through a song.

The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

If I get into something, I get into it for the pure joy of it.

We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.

It’s really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you’re probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it’s pure, it means that they do too.

With ‘The Conjuring,’ I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were.

I’m an artist. Artists don’t need permission to work. Regardless of whether I’m acting or not, I write. I write when I’m tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

Lots of deals happen in situations that aren’t ‘pure work.’

When you’re talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

When I was younger, I definitely thought musical theater was sort of more pure than film. I used to say I’d never go to film because we had to get it right the first time in musical theater. But then, of course, I started doing film and realized I loved it. Keep in mind that I was 8 years old when I said that.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Iggy Pop is a pure Michigan product – gritty, smart, but not afraid of looking stupid or foolish. His father was once a high school English teacher. I love Iggy as a physical entity, sinewy, twisty – even in old age – an embodiment of rock and roll history.

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’s something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That’s neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

I think Lesnar could probably beat Fedor, just from pure size.

Sometimes we need pure relief. Sometimes we need pure escapism. Sometimes we need major reflection on some aspects of our collective unconscious.

The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.

In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.

I took the test for AIDS. I began to hate people who were not sick. Those people are monsters, I would think, believing that they are well because of moral superiority, because they are good. I identified with the loneliness of the sick. I felt that there was something pure about them.