Purity Quotes

"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor."
-David Hare

"When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age."
-Cicero

"In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent."
-Paul Bettany

"Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality."
-Dave Sim

"It can be taken as that `we're not functioning as boards of racial purity with a board of white guys that sit around and decide who's an Indian and who's not.'"
-Ward Churchill

"It's the purity of the fabrics, the sensuality of the look and the fact that everything's carefully hand-done."
-Nazila Sawhney

"The lilies are for purity. Then there's maternal protection in the base panel, depicted by a bird attacking a viper to protect her young."
-Dot Davis

"No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state."
-Felix Adler

"This is a dilemma that always crops up with interest groups that too narrowly define themselves on one issue or another. Do they hold politicians to a standard of purity that ends up hurting them, the interest group? Do you let perfect be the enemy of the good? That is the dilemma they face."
-Kelly Fero

"He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split."
-Mimi Rogers

"Once it gets there it opens up two covers and deploys high purity materials which are then used to collect the solar wind one atom at a time."
-Don Burnett

"The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity."
-Louis Farrakhan

"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."
-Margaret Fuller

"The purity of doing things to drive processor revenue is over. This is designed to drive revenue, and it's possible that they could become the No. 1 or 2 player. They may not understand the business, but they can hire people that do."
-Scott Randall

"They raised 62,340 pennies. These kids, in all their purity and innocence, were reaching out to kids halfway around the world."
-Greg Mortenson

"The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity."
-Matthew Henry

"He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver."
-Thomas Kempis

"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

"Betting undercuts the integrity and purity of an athletic event."
-Thomas Grey

"Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and the of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform."
-Chanakya

"I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies."
-Mark Burnett