Pur Quotes

#1. E pur si muove.
(Albeit It does move.)
[What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.]

Galileo Galilei

#2. Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur

Samuel Johnson

#3. We were licencees of Sara Lee Corp's air freshener brand Ambi Pur, which they sold to Procter and Gamble. So we handed it over to Procter and Gamble. Now we will introduce our own brand of air freshener.

Adi Godrej

#4. If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

George Pataki

#5. We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.

David Brooks

#7. There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

Charlie Sheen

#8. I eat right, I sleep, I work out, I'm happy. I have a beautiful family, nice friends. I choose the good things. I choose the happy, healthy things. I don't choose the bad, unhealthy, unhappy things.

Sharon Stone

#9. You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling.

Brandi L. Bates

#10. How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#11. Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images.

Ishmael Beah

#12. Unusual doors often take you to the unusual worlds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing.

Tom Dreesen

#14. Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. It's unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life's work. It leads to frustration for the patient. And it leaves grieving families convinced they did something wrong.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#16. Put me on stage and I'm happy.

Mick Ralphs

#17. If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

H. P. Blavatsky