Pure Quotes

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

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

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.

If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

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!

Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.

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.

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I'm working, it's 100%. When I'm with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it's pure joy and everything's worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I've learned how to juggle my life and I feel like now I have the perfect balance.

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

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