Pure Quotes

2770 Pure quotes by 1744 unique authors

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure… — Louise Bogan
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense. — Phyllis McGinley
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a… — Lin Yutang
I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion.… — Unknown Author
In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance… — Ernest Starling
Today I will run for pure, absolute joy! — Unknown Author
Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of… — Stephen King
Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love — William Shakespeare
Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.... — Meher Baba
Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love -… — Erma Bombeck
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It… — Henry Van Dyke
Get out into the sunlight-out where everything is-with a vibration that is so dominant that those who annoy you, those who don't agree with you,… — Esther Hicks
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly.… — Walter Benjamin
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers. — Pearl S. Buck
The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of… — Khalil Gibran
Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought. — David Leadbetter
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is… — Rainer Maria Rilke
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas,… — William Wordsworth
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven… — Aeschylus
The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not… — William Shakespeare
Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste. — Lord Byron
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians. — Thomas Jefferson
She's so pure, Moses couldn't even part her knees. — Joan Rivers

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