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Quotes About Purely

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.
~ Adolph Gottlieb
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
~ John Calvin
But her course was too purely reasonable not to contain the germs of rebellion.
~ Edith Wharton
When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don't see how they'll survive - why don't we just all go to the movies or watch television.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
~ Jacques Lacan
I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.
~ Amber Heard
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
~ Paul Bloom
purely to get to you, do you?' said Strike. 'Your fucking ego… The only negative thing about her I could see was that she knew your fucking stepbrother.
~ Robert Galbraith
I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.
~ Amber Heard
If every country's climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.
~ Ali Bongo Ondimba
If we get to the point where we damage the full faith and credit of the United States, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity.
~ Austan Goolsbee
I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.
~ Stephen Root
To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.
~ Simone Weil
Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
~ Eric Gill
I am purely a technocrat and I reject all ideological labels.
~ Gita Gopinath
Abruptly Loerya joined the probing. "And if there is no Creator? Or if the creation is untended?" "Then who is there to reproach us? We provide the meaning of our own lives. If we serve the Land purely to the furthest limit of our abilities, what more can we ask of ourselves?
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.
~ Joseph Joubert
That the most excellent method he had found of going to GOD, was that of doing our common business without any view of pleasing men, [Gal. i. 10; Eph. vi. 5, 6.] and (as far as we are capable) purely for the love of GOD.
~ Brother Lawrence
To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.
~ Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
Having a great phase of reading Dickens – gosh he is good – though so careless. But so beautifully funny – as well as other things. Oh to achieve the purely funny! Where does it reside?
~ Iris Murdoch
Inherent in all persons does be, Love and compassion unfailingly.Give to others your love freely, And receive in turn love purely.[112] - 4
~ Munindra Misra, Eddies of Life
I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Beauty of scene; stateliness of movement; sweetness of sound — these are the graces that seem to reward the mind that seeks enjoyment purely for its own sake.
~ Virginia Woolf
There are things in the universe that are simply and purely evil. A warrior does not seek to understand them, or to compromise with them. He seeks only to obliterate them.
~ Timothy Zahn