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Quotes About Purity

Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
~ Anonymous
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
~ Anonymous
What are little girls made of?Sugar and spice, and everything nice;That's what little girls are made of.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye—the body can never be pure.
~ Anthony Doerr
A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye—the body can never be pure. But this is what the
~ Anthony Doerr
This, he thinks, is the pure they were always lecturing about at Schupforta.
~ Anthony Doerr
Storms rinse the sky...
~ Anthony Doerr
For Werner, doubts turn up regularly. Racial purity, political purity—Bastian speaks to a horror of any sort of corruption, and yet, Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye—the body can never be pure.
~ Anthony Doerr
Racial purity, political purity–Bastian speaks to a horror of any sort of corruption, and yet, Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye–the body can never be pure.
~ Anthony Doerr
To put the matter bluntly, no sense at all can be made of the virtue of purity if sodomy is countenanced or even celebrated. That is because the virtue is founded in reality, and the vice depends upon denying the reality.
~ Anthony Esolen
In other words, man's imagination, when it is not corrupt, yearns for the holy—to behold its beauty from a distance, to be possessed by it. All the greatest art of the past, pagan and Christian, testifies to this desire. It
~ Anthony Esolen
The early Christians saw the connections quite clearly, which is why they set themselves apart from the licentiousness. They did not frequent houses of prostitution, they did not divorce, they did not kill their babies, and they did not engage in sexual perversion.
~ Anthony Esolen
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
~ Meister Eckhart
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We're all animals, but we're a different sort of animal. Maybe they're better than us. They're more loyal. They're more pure. They're more simple. They're not neurotic. Well, there are some neurotic dogs.
~ Kevin Kline
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.
~ Clint Eastwood
I am too pure for you or anyone.
~ Sylvia Plath
People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What they didn't know was that the hostess made sure every morsel placed in front of them was pure and without anything artificial, no matter what the cost.
~ Sandra Bullock
I feel so pure in heart.
~ Abby Johnson
No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.
~ Edward Norton
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
~ Augustus Hare
The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.
~ Chris Robinson
I did 500 shows of 'Chaula Devi' and 700 shows of 'Anarkali'. I never mixed the filmy style with classical arts and kept my stage performances pure and it was appreciated.
~ Asha Parekh