P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Pure and simple, any person who is enjoying life is a success.”
“Pure and simple, balance is happiness.”
“Pure and soft, the melody is entrancing. Haunting. I’m glued to my seat, waiting, hoping for the next enthralling sound. I’d close my eyes if I weren’t afraid I’d miss a second of his performance.”
Source: Unable to Resist
“Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats, Like melody of spring-bird, notes; When the blue halcyon gently laves His plumage in the flashing waves.”
“Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life”
Source: Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Pure as th’expanse of heav’n; I thither went
With unexperienced thought, and laid me down
On the green bank, to look into the clear
Smooth lake, that to me seemed another sky.
As I bent down to look, just opposite,
A shape within the wat’ry gleam appeared
Bending to look on me, I started back,
It started back, but pleased I soon returned,
Pleased it returned as soon with answering looks
Of sympathy and love; there I had fixed
Mine eyes till now and pined with vain desire,
Had not a voice thus warned me-”
“Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.”
“Pure awareness is the screen on which the observer, the dreamer & the knower give momentary appearances.”
“Pure capitalism is great at rewarding the creative utilization of capital by one group of people in service to another according to present gross utility and refined use cases. But pure capitalism does not address the intentional placement of boundaries or the intentional facilitation of productive interactions accounting for net utility and holistic use cases. This is why pure capitalism at times is threatened by or presents threats to a variety of social and ecological ecosystems. And this is why permaculture economics is superior to pure capitalism, as it contains all of the benefits of capitalism plus some benefits that capitalism does not provide .”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.”
“Pure-chit itself is the Absolute Supreme Soul (parmatma).”
“Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.”
Source: A Selection of the Most Celebrated Sermons of Martin Luther ...: (Never Before Published in the United States.) To which is Prefixed, a Biographical History of His Life
“Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Writings of the Revd. Matthew Henry: Consisting of Sermons, Tracts and Biographical Sketches of Eminent Christians and Ministers. To which is Added the Sermon Preached on the Author's Death
“Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.”
“Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.”
“Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good ... it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.”
“Pure consciousness expresses itself in millions of different forms but the root of consciousness is what we call Being, The Light, Universal Life, Spirit, I Am or God.”
Source: Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace
“Pure Consciousness is all-pervasive. Even the moment you meditate, you just know. You are something more than the body, because all pervasiveness, the amount you can experience, only that much you can visualize. Please understand, physical things, for example this seat, this āsana, even if you don’t experience what it is made of and how it feels, you can see it, grasp it, but the more and more things become subtle, it’s the depth of your experience, how much you feel one with it, that much only you will know it.”
“Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.”
Source: The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi
“Pure data. You don’t believe data—you test data.” He grimaced. “If I could put my finger on the moment we genuinely fucked ourselves, it was the moment we decided that data was something you could use words like believe or disbelieve around.”
Source: The Water Knife
“Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart.”
“Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.”
Source: Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions
“Pure drawing is an abstraction.”
“Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.”
“Pure driving, pure racing, that´s what makes me happy.”
“Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather with crumbliness. In general, stone is formed in two ways only (a) through the hardening of clay, and (b) by the congelation [of waters].”
Source: Avicennae De Congelatione Et Conglutinatione Lapidum
“Pure emotions are the luxury of children and animals”
Source: She Who Became the Sun
“Pure empathy will make you dissociate.”
“Pure energy is the father of creation.”
Source: Angels & Demons: A Novel
“Pure english (3 o'clock or 9 o'clock), when shot perpendicular into a rail, creates a rebound of 22 1/2 degrees. Each additional hour clockwise on the same side of the cue ball moves the result one diamond counter-clockwise on the table (and vice-versa).”
“Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.”
“Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.”
Source: The Paradiso
“Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.”
“Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.”
“Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.”
“Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.”
“Pure generosity emerges when we give without the need for our offering to be received in a certain way. That’s why the best kind of generosity comes from inner abundance, rather than from feeling deficient and hollow, starved for validation.”
“Pure gold does not rust. Only gold alloys do so. You may have golden dreams. But if you go in the company of toxic people, your become "a gold alloy" and what that means is that you can rust at any time!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.”
Source: The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt].
“Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.”
Source: Waiting to Live
“Pure happiness can only be attained through developing our mind.”
Source: Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness
“Pure has become impure,
Impure has now become pure.
Good has now become bad,
Bad has become evil.
For one to live is to die,
for one to die is to live.
-Kikyo”
“Pure heart begets pure body, soul and spirit.”
“Pure heart begets pure thoughts.”
“Pure heart, clean hands.”
“Pure heart, pure soul.”
“Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats”
“Pure honesty" is dead in a jungle of eternal, bloody impunity, rampant corruption and dirty politics. ~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy”
“Pure innovation is more gross than error.”
Source: Bussy D'ambois: George Chapman