Obsessed Quote by E. M. Forster Download Open image “Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.” — E. M. Forster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Obsessed Obsession Purity Reformers
Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification… — Alice Glass Copy Share Image
People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact. — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My purity manifests itself in countless ways, including an utter inability to sit idly when exposed to attacks on truth, reason, logic, and/or individual… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When you fall in love for the first time, you're naive to every feeling that you're feeling, and you're almost obsessed with or addicted… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
“You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self keeps waiting… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah,… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass.… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Acting was the first thing that obsessed me when I was 8-9 years old. — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
