Quotes with purity

  • A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
  • These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
  • Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

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  • H. A. L. Fisher Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.
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  • Hugh Blair The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
    Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • John Ray There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
    John Ray
    English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
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  • Barry Mann A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for medita
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Thomas à Kempis By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Queen Victoria His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Margaret Fuller It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Berthold Auerbach It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • James Baldwin No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • James Baldwin Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Georges Bernanos Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • David Hare Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Purity of heart is to will one thing.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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