Top 100 Purest Quotes
#1. He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#2. When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading of the script is so important because you're experiencing it all for the first time, and it's then that you really know if it's going to work or not.
David Tennant
#3. We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.
M.R. Mathias
#4. It is here, it exists - but one must enter it naked and alone, with no rags from the falsehoods of centuries, with the purest clarity of mind - not an innocent heart, but that which is much rarer: an intransigent mind - as one's only possession and key.
Ayn Rand
#5. When snooty high school bitches grow up, their meanness is distilled into its purest, most lethal form," Emmie whispered fearfully. "Don't you watch Real Housewives?
Jayne Denker
#6. Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
Jim Hodges
#8. It's a tricky art, working with them in their purest form," she mused. "Simultaneously simple yet infinitely complex." It sounded like my relationship with Adrian.
Richelle Mead
#9. Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.
Theodor Billroth
#10. I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
John Milton
#12. Spinoza spoke of vitality as the purest virtue, the only virtue. The drive to persist, to flourish, he said, is the absolute quality shared by all living beings. What happens, however, when vitality is inverted, and instead of flourishing, one is driven to eat oneself alive?
Michael Greenberg
#13. When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
Mitch Albom
#15. The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.
D.H. Lawrence
#16. Being true to ourselves doesn't make us people of integrity. Charles Manson was true to himself, and as a result, he rightly is spending the rest of his life in prison. Ultimately, being true to our Creator gives us the purest form of integrity.
John Wooden
#18. In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported ...
Allan Kaprow
#19. There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.
Matthew Bellamy
#21. By her desperate actions, she drove others to desperation, and so we came to be deprived of our brightest ally , our purest colors.
Cameron Dokey
#22. Don't ever feel like your best days are behind you. Reinvention is the purest form of hope. Make today your best yet!
Phil Wohl
#23. They were a tangle of limbs on the bed, limbs and f lesh and bodies entwined so fully, joined so deeply, that it was as if they were sealed together. The heat had melted and merged them. They weren't even human now, but sex in its rawest, purest form.
Anonymous
#24. Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?
Charles Gounod
#25. It's only at first sight,when the mind's a blank slate,that you get the purest look.
So I fold the flap back,and write:
Tumbleweeds.
Alyson Noel
#26. Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.
Henry David Thoreau
#27. In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.
Alan Moore
#28. In the purest sensual and intimate act of lovemaking, there is a give and take, and both partners actively choose among and agree to the expressions. In reciprocal lovemaking, a woman is equally satisfied and drives the experience just as much as her man.
J.F. Kelly
#29. While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
#30. I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
Albert Brooks
#31. There are infinite kinds of love, Reverend Dale liked to say, but charity is the purest of them all, because it's the only one that doesn't ask, What's in it for me?
Hillary Jordan
#32. [On yoga] Once you've completed a wonderful class, you get a sense of the deepest, purest part of yourself. You feel like you are connected to everybody else in the world.
Jennifer Beals
#33. God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie's hands.
Nicholas Sparks
#34. Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual
Anna Pavlova
#35. It has been written that so much of life is preparation, so much is routine, and so much is retrospect that the purest essence of anyone's genius contracts itself to a precious few hours.
James D Hornfischer
#36. I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.
Michael J. Fox
#37. One day the wickedness of the kings of the world would destroy us, oh sorrow, and armies of the world would march upon us, wailing, and the purest of the children of God would have to deliver themselves unto the Lord by their own hand.
The Deliverance.
Chuck Palahniuk
#38. God Almighty first planted a garden: and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
#39. Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages
Jean Paul
#40. Sometimes the love of a friend is the purest kind. Unless you're rich and very generous, the love of a friend is usually unconditional and more genuine than anything else in the world.
Santino Hassell
#41. They say that children have the purest hearts. That children don't truly hate, because they don't fully understand the emotion. They forgive and forget easily.
Abbi Glines
#42. I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.
Miguel
#43. Kittu was fascinated that such a technically minded person could be so happy groping blindly toward big piles of money. "Jim Clark has a clarity of vision that is prompted by the purest form of greed," says Kittu.
Michael Lewis
#44. The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness
Aristotle.
#45. I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.
Victoria Woodhull
#46. To look in the eyes of the one you live with & see true love is indeed the purest of pleasures
Faye Hall
#49. Since we made Shrek in the digital format, you actually can see it in its purest form digitally.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
#50. It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy.
Luis Sepulveda
#51. Have the purest of intentions for what you said you'd do and do it bravely.
Pleasefindthis
#52. You are the noblest, purest creature I've ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you, he whispered.
Stephenie Meyer
#53. When Athena falls in love, it's purely intellectual. It's a meeting of minds. The purest kind of love.
Rick Riordan
#54. Burroughs a purest ignu his haircut is a cream his left finger pinkey chopped off for early ignu reasons metaphysical spells love spells with psychoanalysts
his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars
Allen Ginsberg
#55. Rather than being a product of life, they could allow life to be a product of what they created. They were love in its purest form.
Joseph Clough
#56. Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
Joseph Lancaster
#57. All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.
Guy Clark
#58. Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away; ...
Robert Montgomery
#59. In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished.
Emily Thorne
#60. His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible.
Joshua Logan
#61. Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
Jean Genet
#62. It would be helpful if the universe would give us one big clue, or a giant compass, if you will, pointing to the direction we should be taking. In fact, the compass is there. To find it, you need only look inside yourself to discover your soul's purest desire, its dream for your life.
Deepak Chopra
#63. Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to the all-just laws, so that we become like a still lake of purest crystal and without an effort our depths are revealed to ourselves ...
Henry David Thoreau
#64. Dancing is my gift and my life ... God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the need to dance. It is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual. It is happiness.
Anna Pavlova
#65. But best of all ... I got love. Not love under fear or condition. Not love that comes with a price. I got real, honest to god love in all its purest forms. Family love. Friend love. Unconditional love.
Samantha Towle
#67. Anticipating this loss had a way of refining memory, filing it down to the purest, rawest form of itself. My clouded perceptions grew clearer. And someday soon I'd have to confront that. But not yet.
Wendy Paine Miller
#68. Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being disowned by its creators, it deserves to be seen as the purest incarnation yet of the ideology that gave it birth.
Naomi Klein
#69. Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
Jean Paul
#70. I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.
Mitch Albom
#71. You're the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb
L. Duarte
#72. My brothers and my sisters, do always persevere in true and earnest prayer, and the Lord will hear you. Believe that the highest revelations of science are conformable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayer; that in this doctrine the highest philosophy harmonizes with the purest devotion.
Keshub Chandra Sen
#73. The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.
Eugene Ionesco
#74. Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
John Lubbock
#75. This is what parents do
what all of us do, in fact, when we're at our unrivaled best. We bind ourselves to those who need us most, and through caring for them, grow to love them, grow to delight in them, grow to marvel at who they are. Gift-love at its purest.
Jennifer Senior
#76. We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.
Henry David Thoreau
#77. Albert J. Guerard has justly
called the story "one of the great dark meditationsin literature, and one of the purest expressions of a melancholy temperament.
Hunt Hawkins
#78. The bluebird is well named, for he wears a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and tail; no North American bird better deserves the name, for no other flashes before our admiring eyes so much brilliant blue.
Arthur Cleveland Bent
#79. Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with his logic.
Garry Kasparov
#81. Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.
Stephen Mitchell
#83. All the best, greatest, purest and worthiest things in life are beyond all market-value and that the gifts of the gods are not for sale.
Marie Corelli
#84. Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
Alfred De Vigny
#85. The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish to imbibe,' he said. 'Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure vessel and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself can I retain in some degree of purity the liquid I receive.
Leo Tolstoy
#86. Change threatens, and its possibility creates frightened, angry people. They are found in their purest essence on the extreme right, but in all of us there is some fear of process, of change.
Carl R. Rogers
#87. Like a relationship, friendships end for myriad reasons. Still, I can't help but ignore the logic and feel the purest level of rejection.
Me
#88. Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.
Yves Klein
#89. Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.
Pythagoras
#90. The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
John Of The Cross
#91. Evil, why do you infest the purest thoughts with hatred?
Stevie Wonder
#92. Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose head spinneth out the finest cobwebs.
Ralph Cudworth
#93. Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.
Francois Truffaut
#94. When I held you in my arms and you stared up at me, only a few minutes old, I knew the purest brand of love.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#95. Acting in its purest form is an urge from deep in the human psyche to celebrate our aliveness, to act our dreams and fantasies in a public display of our most private selves.
Darryl Hickman
#96. Last summer
we lived
on the planet
of purest sadness
looking at people
in the streets
like aliens -
looking at each day
as if it were the last.
We spoke to the moon
without words,
without hope.
Julie O'Callaghan
#97. The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.
Hannah More
#98. Love isn't crazy. Love isn't a degree of insanity. Love is sanity at its purest. It forces your soul to make a rational choice - a choice to make another person's happiness your priority, to allow them access to your heart and soul.
Lila Felix
#99. Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.
Robert Browning
#100. He took on their insolent pride the revenge of the purest charity - housing, caring for, befriending them, so as no son could have done it more tenderly and efficiently.
Charlotte Bronte