Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one’s sleep under so many lids.

Oh! just, subtle, and mighty opium! that to the hearts of poor and rich alike, for the wounds that will never heal, and for ‘the pangs that tempt the spirit to rebel,’ bringest an assuaging balm; eloquent opium! that with thy potent rhetoric stealest away the purposes of wrath; and to the guilty man, for one night givest back the hopes of his youth, and hands washed pure of blood..

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

She was pure, it was true, as he had never dreamed of purity; but cherries stained her lips.

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.

A pure, sincere, and stable spirit is not distracted though it be employed in many works; for that it works all to the honor of God, and inwardly being still and quiet, seeks not itself in any thing it doth

A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases

Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.

Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you.

hen I was young, I would gorge on chicken. But for the last several years, I’ve been a pure vegetarian; I don’t even take egg.

When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it’s so pure and powerful.

The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

It is impossible to exaggerate how much better the formula es denkt in mir is than cogito ergo sum, which lets us in for pure subjectivism.

The limited circle is pure.

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people

Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

Pure air and water, cleanliness, a proper diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God are remedies for the want of which thousands are dying; yet these remedies are going out of date because their skillful use requires work that the people do not appreciate.

Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan’s altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The offering must be presented to some deity. Since God is pure and holy, and will accept nothing defiling in its character, He refuses this expensive, filthy, and unholy sacrifice therefore, we conclude that Satan is the one who claims the honor.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.

I was as pure as a river, But now I think I’m possessed, You put a fever inside me, And I’ve been cold since you left.

You say you wanna go and have fun, well you ain’t the only one If I ring, don’t let it ring too long or I’m gone

Don’t matter which way you go Payback’s gonna come your way

Your eyes are where I’m lost in Underneath the chandelier We’re dancing all alone

She’s a total professional, a diva, a mega-star, not just in music but in the entertainment industry. You always learn from the greats, and J.Lo is one

A chess problem is an exercise in pure mathematics.

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too.

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.

See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure consciousness beyond the subject.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

I’m a member of no party. I have no ideology. I’m a rationalist.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvelous presence.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

I’ve spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

I don’t want your punk-a man, I’m too tough

There was a touch of mysticism and poetry in her nature which made her love to gaze at the purple sunsets and watch the evening stars

If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

Reggae music is the purest music.

The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode

I never wanted to alienate my brand for business. I always wanted to keep it authentic and keep it as pure as I could

I think you can make a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry

As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you’ll know that you’re pure within and will find happiness once more

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Vices are their own punishment

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Don’t be insecure if your heart is pure.