Pure Quotes - page 2

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. (Virginia Woolf)
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure. View quote
Edward Young
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. View quote
Molière
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. View quote
Marie Curie
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. (Charles Dudley Warner)
Nothing is impossible for pure love. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. View quote
Elizabeth Berkley
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple. View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. View quote
Karel Čapek
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution. View quote
Virchand Gandhi
I'm backing David Cameron's campaign out of pure, cynical self-interest. View quote
Boris Johnson
The science of pure mathematics ... may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of pure mathematics. View quote
John Hicks
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. View quote
William S. Burroughs
I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form. (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
Life is a pure flame, And we live by an invisible sun within us. View quote
Thomas Browne
When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'T is e'en as if an angel shook his wings. View quote
William Cowper
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. View quote
James Jeans
Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. View quote
E. B. White