Win The Life

I'm as pure as driven slush. - Tallulah Bankhead

 

I can't stand mindless purity - I have soaked myself in scepticism and am by nature magnetised to bitterness. - Brett Whiteley

 

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.- Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. - Simone Weil

 

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. - Salman Rushdie

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.-William Ames

 

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.-Eric Hoffer

 

The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.-Uri Geller

 

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.-Louis Farrakhan

 

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.-Hugh Blair

 

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.-John Strachan

 

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.-Guillaume Apollinaire

 

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.-Mohandas Gandhi

 

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.-Matthew Henry

 

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.-Arthur Helps

 

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.-Buddha

 

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.-Elijah Wood

 

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.-Alfred Hitchcock

 

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.-Salman Rushdie

 

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.-Milan Kundera

 

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.-Henri Matisse

 

You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.-Jennifer Beals

 

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.-Ron Wyden

 

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!-George A. Smith

 

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.-John Woolman

 

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.-Mohandas Gandhi

 

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.-Jean Racine

 

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.-Fisher Ames

 

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.-Felix Adler

 

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.-James A. Baldwin

 

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.-Matthew Simpson

 

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.-Joyce Maynard

 

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.-Thomas Merton

 

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.-Thomas Kempis

 

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.-Cyril Connolly

 

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.-Georges Bernanos

 

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.-David Hare

 

Purity of heart is to will one thing.-Soren Kierkegaard

 

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.-Mohandas Gandhi

 

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.-Chanakya

 

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.-Juvenal

 

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.-James Madison

 

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.-Barry Mann

 

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.-Derek Jarman

 

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

 

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.-James Madison

 

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.-Daniel Berrigan

 

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.-Sun Myung Moon

 

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.-Johan Huizinga

 

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.-Mimi Rogers

 

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.-Thomas Kempis

 

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.-Stephen Fry

 

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.-Donald Judd

 

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.-Mohandas Gandhi

 

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.-Goldwin Smith

 

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.-Mark Burnett

 

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.-John Lennon

 

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.-Paul Bettany

 

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.-Leonardo da Vinci

 

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.-Charles Eastman

 

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.-Thomas Bulfinch

 

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.-Margaret Fuller