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Quotes About Purge

I like getting rid of things. I really do.
~ Matt Lauer
the disgust that exists indelibly between men and women and that you are always trying to purge with what you call frankness. As soon as you cease to be frank, you see a stain, you are forced to acknowledge imperfection, and you want only to run away and hide in shame.
~ Rachel Cusk
Everybody calls it a purge, but when people move out of the state, they don't need to be on our voting rolls if they're living somewhere else. That's how you get double voting.
~ Brian Kemp
I had to burn all of my non-Christian records.
~ Guy Sebastian
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand her text.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
~ James Buchan
I fancy he is attempting to purge himself of — all manner of things. I beg him to take heart, for our Lord surely watches over him as he watches over us all and God judges the actions of men but surely too He judges them by their hearts and their minds, else how can one act be held distinct from another? And surely that distinction He would make
~ Ahdaf Soueif
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's something about a catharsis that is very important.
~ Glenn Close
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
~ James Buchan
North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
~ Barbara Demick
All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.
~ Sylvia Plath
I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.
~ Francis Bacon
If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.
~ William Shakespeare
Sorrow and loss are meant to prepare us for the vision of God to purge the inward eye that it may see Him.
~ Alexander MacLaren
Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.
~ Kristin Armstrong
We need a mass cleansing, street by street, piazza by piazza, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
~ Matteo Salvini
I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
~ Richard Dawkins
We purge our bloodstream of its baser elements.
~ Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Laughter—one of the most precious of God's gifts; the very salt, the very light, the very fresh air of life; the divine disinfectant, the heavenly purge. Could one ever be real friends with somebody one didn't laugh with? Of course one couldn't.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
from the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which overcrowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness. Plague is a nasty death but a quick one. Starvation also is a nasty death…but a very slow one.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
We're trying to apply Clarke's Law." "I don't recall it. Maybe it was while I was out with mumps." "Arthur C. Clarke," Pop told her. "Great man—too bad he was liquidated in The Purge.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
You must purge yourself of all thoughts of self-importance, and all inclination to judge either yourself or others. You must go to power with humility and deep respect.
~ Mike Livingston