Best pure & simple Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.”

Giving Today Difficult Can Do Lines Simple Steps Pure Perfection Complicated Dancer

Author:Natalia Makarova

“But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.”

Art Ends Simple Pure Music Is

Author:Leo Ornstein

“During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.”

Way Years Made Problem Would Be Found Lines Simple Results Theory Pure Research Discovery Work Out Invention Constructs Experimentation Discarded

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep. So for people to understand Doors music is certainly a testament to their intellects.”

People Kind Simple Doors Pure Music Is Clean Intellect Testament

Author:Ray Manzarek

“White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.”

“The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.”

Simple Type Pure Profound

Author:Michael Heizer

“The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers; pure and simple. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work, and I include in the lot alcohol, morphine, barbiturates, tranquilizers the whole spectrum of sedative drugs.”

Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

“I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.”

Way Mean Doe Moments Today Form Simple Modern Amount Pure Capitalism Caught Definitions Surrender All Time Dominant Old Fashioned

Author:Alain Badiou

“Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.”

Simple Pure Complexes Glad Favourite Adventurer Gladstone Disraeli

Author:Michael Foot

“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“I'm like Madonna: I'm Ming-Na. Just my first and middle name. That's it. Pure and simple.”

Firsts Names Simple Middle Pure

Author:Ming-Na Wen

“I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against infidelity and Appolyonic assault. That would be beyond human criticism. Let us make it simpler and plainer for people to get into the Kingdom of God.”

People Humans Made Would Be Moving Simple Pure Criticism Scripture Kingdoms Doctrine Creeds Infidelity Quotations Assault Kingdom Of God Denominations

Author:Thomas De Witt Talmage

“Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.”

“There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.”

Thinking Looks Age Strong Simple Tree Son Sweet Taste Pure Plant Arguing Selfish Forests Generous Glorious Posterity Relish Cultivation Hardy Plant A Tree Vegetation

Author:Washington Irving

“The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth.”

Children Feelings Beautiful Mother Simple Imagine Holy Pure Ties Links Construction Fidelity Withered Emblems Mother And Child Immaculate Simple And Beautiful

Author:Washington Irving

“No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.”

Simple Pure Thinker Earnest Plagiarism

Book:Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time: With Other Papers

Source: Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time: With Other Papers

“Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state.... Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old?”

Persons Two States Enjoy Simple Practice Food Theory Thousand Pure Cooking Bread Diets Meals Culinary Articles Simplest Two Days Staples

Book:The Young Housekeeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery

Source: The Young Housekeeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery

“Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy--its figures, its trees, or its palaces,--without a spot.”

Giving Doe Eye Simple Forget Views Tree Style Figures Fine Pure Window Spots Landscape Fancy Display Observers Palaces

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable. A high view of the law reminds us that God accepts us on the basis of Christ's perfection, not our progress. Grace, properly understood, is the movement of a holy God toward an unholy people. He doesn't cheapen the law or ease its requirements. He fulfills them in his Son, who then gives his righteousness to us. That's the gospel. Pure and simple.”

Source: It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News

“In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).”

Has Beens Seems Three Simple Numbers Pure Concepts Mathematics Cows Verbs Adjectives Nouns

Book:Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)

Source: Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)

“There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.”

Care Joy Simple Pleasure Pure Mars

Author:Ovid

“The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.”

Simple Modern Century Design Building Pure Office Machines Tall Engines Motor Office Buildings

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.”

“The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.”

Men Firsts Doe Soul Self Law Sin Simple Opinion Virtue Pure Office Spring Superiors Naked Rational Obedience Heavenly Commandments Submission Disputes Benefactors Self Opinion

Book:Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

“It is a simple truth that if we identify ourselves as being fundamentally pure, strong, and capable we will actually develop these qualities, but if we continue to think of ourselves as dull and foolish, that is what we will become.”

Ifs Thinking Truth Strong Simple Quality Pure Capable Foolish Dull Simple Truths

Book:Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire

Source: Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire

“An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals.”

Way Artist Enjoy Simple Deals Pure Humble Accepted Editors Contracts Publishers Galaxy Be Humble Castes Insisting Caste System

Author:Jack Kirby

“Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not. In every atom, He alone is present. From the ant to the universe, He spreads. The Lord who cares equally for all, the compassionate one who is all knowledge, tenderness, skill, holiness and beauty - He stands on all sides everywhere.”

Ends God Care Universe Sides Simple Lord Pure Skills Complexes Spread Holiness Subtle Compassionate Atoms Tenderness Who Cares Gross Ants Simple And Complex

Author:Vinoba Bhave

“We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.”

Needs Beautiful Simple Pure Intellectual Complicated Categories Childlike

Author:Rob Bell

“Pay attention to your self outside the realm of your experiences and you'll discover that there is a light there, there is a love there. Love of one, love of all, merge into love, pure and simple. It radiates from you like light from the sun.”

Self Light Simple Pay Attention Sun Pure Pay Attention Realms One Love

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.”

Simple Pure Memorable Meals My Time Eggs Magnificent Glamorous Caviar Truffles Scrambled Eggs

Author:James Beard

“The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'”

Said Two Age Water Dark Simple Behinds Dying Pure Medical Physicians Dark Ages Pure Water Simple Food

Author:Voltaire

“We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring.”

Thinking Knows Government Guy Lost Simple Support Reader Pure Dollars Contribution Each Day Cents Transactions Tidy

Author:Dave Eggers

“That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to take. You'd be a fool if you didn't follow it. Perhaps it's like solving a difficult question in pure mathematics. There must be a moment when the solution is so simple and evident that you wonder why you hadn't come upon it before. When you do come upon it, you know it in the deepest part of your being. It carries its own logic.”

Ifs Knows Writing Moments Difficult Realizing Simple Wonder Novel Path Fool Pure Solutions Logic Mathematics Carrie Evident Difficult Questions

Author:Don DeLillo

“The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.”

Source: Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith

“Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.”

Ifs Want Fun Simple Pure Basketball Having Fun Ymca

Author:Pat Riley

“Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.”

Enough Simple Pure Witty Italian Elimination Manic

Book:Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays

Source: Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays

“Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.”

Thinking Men May Certain Simple Issues Pure Authority Judgment Highest Blame Proof Reverence Considering Blame Me

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

“There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.”

Simple Tree Taste Pure Forests Cultivation

Author:Washington Irving

“Everywhere I go the coaches all tell me that Scholsey is the player they admire. But if they think they'll get him they're wasting their time! Paul is a Manc lad pure and simple. He loves the club and there's no chance of him leaving here. If ever he decided to go there would be a stampede, but he won't be going, he's here for life.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Chance Simple Player Pure Decided Leaving Clubs Coaches Admire Lad Scholes Stampede

Author:Alex Ferguson

“The Witness is a huge step forward, and it is a necessary and important step in meditation, but it is not ultimate. When the Witness or the soul is finally undone, then the Witness dissolves into everything that is witnessed. The subject/object duality collapses and there is only pure nondual awareness, which is very simple, very obvious.”

Important Soul Simple Steps Meditation Subjects Awareness Objects Huge Pure Ultimate Obvious Witness Collapse Duality Undone Steps Forward

Book:Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber

Source: Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber

“Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light.”

Doe Stills Light Simple Pure Picks Intellect Spy Here And There

Book:Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises

Source: Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises

“Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.”

Mind Today Simple Ignorance Pure Wander Hug Vacuity

Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

“Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.”

Simple Responsibility Groups Pure Excellence Pursuit Assumption Pursuit Of Excellence

Author:Philip Selznick

“When, in short, we shall have unlearned everything which has been taught since his [Jesus'] day, and got back to the pure and simple doctrines he inculcated, we shall then be truly and worthily his disciples: and my opinion is that if nothing had ever been added to what flowed purely from his lips, the whole world would at this day have been Christian.”

Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

“The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.”

Humans Self Winning Human Beings Simple Pure Expectations Optimism Traits Positive Self

Author:Denis Waitley

“Real Understanding manifests itself as spontaneous natural and simple action, free of the depressing process of choice, pure without indecisions of any type.”

Real Action Choices Process Understanding Natural Simple Type Pure Depressing Spontaneous Indecision

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.”

People Looks Black Simple Pure Vote Folks Barack American Politics Cuz

Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and people are as tightly controlled within the walls of a corporation as they are in a totalitarian society.”

People Problem Simple Democracy Wall Pure Slave Corporations Controlled Constructs American Democracy

Author:Richard Grossman

“Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.”

Mind Courses Simple Pure All Things Infinite Wander Zen Proverb

Book:Chuan Tsu: Inner Chapters

Source: Chuan Tsu: Inner Chapters

“In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away the most changes are the result of mistakes pure and simple slips of the pen, accidental omissions, inadvertent additions, misspelled words, blunders of one sort or another.”

Facts Christian Found Simple Results Mistake Pure Theology Ideology Pens Slips Manuscripts Blunders Omission Misspelled Words

Book:Whose Word is It?: The Story Behind who Changed the New Testament and why

Source: Whose Word is It?: The Story Behind who Changed the New Testament and why

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