“ In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. ”
- Booker T. Washington- Copy
- 3K
“ The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. ”
- George Balanchine- Copy
- 114
“ A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Jazz is purely about just the music, whereas any of the areas of rock n' roll, because it's a popular area, has in many cases show involved. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. ”
- Michael Korda- Copy
- 227
“ I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. ”
- Audre Lorde- Copy
- 2.1K
“ To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan. ”
- Alan Moore- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The first and most important point to remember is that eating should be a pleasure - do not eat purely for health, you won't live much longer, but it will feel like an eternity. ”
- Mark Porter- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
- 3.4K
“ And all the loveliest things there be Come simply, so it seems to me. ”
- Edna St. Vincent Millay- Copy
- 3K
“ Catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety. ”
- Gladys Taber- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. ”
- Franklin P. Adams- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic. ”
- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree- Copy
- 3.5K
“ There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. ”
- Martin Gardner- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity. ”
- R. E. Hellmund- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale. ”
- George Farquhar- Copy
- 4K
“ Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific. ”
- Eric Gill- Copy
- 465
“ Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. ”
- Joseph Ratzinger- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
- 1.4K
“ There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
- 872
“ What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 939
“ Women are an enslaved population — the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion — contempt for women — has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
- 3.8K
“ You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence. ”
- Katherine Anne Porter- Copy
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