Purely Quotes
573 quotes by 488 authors
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There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
— Kevin Bacon
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
— George Balanchine
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting…
— Cecil Beaton
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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing…
— Bill Bryson
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Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely…
— Julie Burchill
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I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
— John Burns
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Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to…
— David Chalmers
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My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing…
— John Cleese
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We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and…
— Yasser Arafat
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to…
— Albert Einstein
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The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
— James Madison
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God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the…
— John Bertram Phillips
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I know of nobody who is purely autistic, or purely neurotypical. Even God has some autistic moments, which is why the planets spin.
— Jerry Newport
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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
— Oscar Wilde
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It is harder to be a lifter than a bodybuilder...lifting is purely masculine whereas bodybuilding entails feminine traits. Bodybuilding reminds me of a woman getting…
— Doug Hepburn
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Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look…
— Rajneesh
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
— Annie Dillard
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A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over…
— Jean Giraudoux
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I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
— George Farquhar
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