Pure Quotes

"We're neither pure; nor wise; nor good; we do the best we know."
-Voltaire

"Pure by impure is not seen."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."
-Buddha

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."
-Buddha

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
-Oscar Wilde

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
-Oscar Wilde

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go."
-William Shakespeare

"Experience is pure gold. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted."
-Ann Landers

"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."
-Steve Jobs

"I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it."
-Steve Prefontaine

"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."
-Meister Eckhart

"It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity."
-Alexander Hamilton

"Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto."
-Lope De Vega

"Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement."
-Lope De Vega

"Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return."
-Peace Pilgrim

"All lovers live by longing, and endure; summon a vision and declare it pure."
-Theodore Roethke

"Even if they send pure Muslim or Arab troops we will consider them invaders and will fight them."
-Fatahi Khalil

"There will be selective application against Arabs and Muslims and this is pure form of discrimination."
-Nihad Awad

"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed."
-Reinhold Niebuhr

"Our victory is as pure as a diamond."
-Velimir Ilic

"This is Janet-come-lately. I'm glad she's finally waking up to the crisis. I wish it was more than pure politics."
-Russell Pearce

"Even a teenager here can identify pure gold. So we cannot afford any cheating."
-Abdul Karim

"What irritates me about it is I know they haven't gotten gas in days. Their gas came in four or five days ago. The previous owner wouldn't change his prices, either up or down, until he got another load of gas. It's just a matter of profiteering, pure and simple."
-Bill Burke

"Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind."
-E. B. White

"I love pure music, but you get a more complete package with opera. It's theater, it's music, it's drama, it's scenic design."
-Frank Mcclain

"The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears."
-Alfred De Musset

"First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life."
-Hortense Calisher