Purely Quotes

573 quotes by 488 authors

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content. — Kevin Bacon
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
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
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
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
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
I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come. — John Burns
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
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
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
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
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. — James Madison
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
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
Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall. — Annie Dillard
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
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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