Purities Quotes

#1. And the true heart of us, our human kind, is that we're connected, at our best, by purities of love found in no other creature.

Gregory David Roberts

#2. I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

Barry Hannah

#3. For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

John Florio

#4. Expand your mind. Read something every day whether it's a book or an article.

Alison G. Bailey

#5. Each one of us is endowed with specific sacred-skill.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

Hannah Arendt

#7. I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.

Ian Millar

#8. God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things ... In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.

Corrie Ten Boom

#9. What kind of girl reads Wealth of Nations for fun?"
She closed the book and looked at the front jacket, then at him. "It's a shame really. I had nothing else to read. I left all my Barbie comic books at home.

Jill Barnett

#10. An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#11. A statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

Taylor Caldwell

#12. I remember there was this one lady shaman who said that having children puts a hole in your soul. And the only way to get it back is for your children to die. And, you know, monks don't have families.

Larkin Grimm

#13. You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Zygmunt Bauman

#14. This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.

Dana Gioia

#15. Are you willing to self -sacrifice to achieve your goals?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. The battle lines are drawn, priyatama. The more formidable the foe, the sweeter the victory.

Colleen Houck

#17. Thing about civilization, it's what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can't count on the other.

James S.A. Corey

#18. HASSEN: Perhaps I will never get over the shame of disappointment, but it will not destroy me.

Ruby Dixon