Purely Quotes

573 Purely quotes by 482 unique authors

At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling… — Terence Tao
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. — Bill Forsyth
Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action… — Kedar Joshi
Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons,… — Havelock Ellis
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. — Franklin P. Adams
A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred… — Henri Matisse
The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal.… — Robert M. Pirsig
Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan,… — Chogyam Trungpa
The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial. — Robert Henri
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. — Wassily Kandinsky
I do think people have suggested that it would be a good thing if the reporting were accurate on Al-Jazeera and if it were not… — Condoleezza Rice
I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work… — Robert Rauschenberg
The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire… — Donny Deutsch
I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass. — Wyndham Lewis
If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your… — Alexander McQueen
You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity — Christopher Nolan
I regret that I've never actually managed to be inspired enough to get into anything else, and I should've been, I really should have been,… — Roy Harper
I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material… — E. J. Hughes
While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle, no power belonging… — Brigham Young
In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in… — John Muir
Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas. — Napoleon Bonaparte
To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does… — Marcus Garvey
I would like to love more deeply and purely, more completely, and if it is your will, I will do that, if it is not,… — Frederick Lenz
If we give purely, it opens up a doorway in our heart and it gives us the vision to see that those we give to… — Frederick Lenz

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