Quotes about Purely

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist. Votes: 3

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea. Votes: 3

Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history. Votes: 3

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it. Votes: 3

In a city [world] as dirty as this, You gather up, save, and show me Purely beautiful things. Votes: 3

San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions. Votes: 3

Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion. - Richard Von Krafft Votes: 3

Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing a lot of writing will make you a much better writer. Votes: 3

I don't approach films purely in context of genre. Votes: 1

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary. Votes: 1

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. Votes: 1

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. Votes: 1

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. Votes: 1

It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse. Votes: 1

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary. Votes: 1

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. Votes: 1

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. Votes: 1

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. Votes: 1

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision. Votes: 1

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. Votes: 1

On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background. Votes: 1

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with. Votes: 1

But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of. Votes: 1

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Votes: 1

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. Votes: 1

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me. Votes: 1

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. Votes: 1

I have made a promise to myself that I will have no limitations as an actor. I have realised I have to pay attention to the commercials or the business aspect of cinema, but deep inside, I am purely an artiste. Votes: 1

Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially. Votes: 1

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. Votes: 1

Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots. Votes: 1

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. Votes: 1

Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility. Votes: 1

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives. Votes: 1

Nobody acts purely selfishly. Votes: 0

... inventions and purely human institutions. Votes: 0

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial. Votes: 0

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon. Votes: 0

A purely materialistic art would be... Votes: 0

The purely defensive is doomed to defeat. Votes: 0

When I read, I'm purely a reader Votes: 0

A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity. Votes: 0

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. Votes: 0

It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons. Votes: 0

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake. Votes: 0

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young. Votes: 0

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational. Votes: 0

What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual. Votes: 0

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination. Votes: 0

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music. Votes: 0

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. Votes: 0

We are born by accident into a purely random universe. Votes: 0

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. Votes: 0

Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic. Votes: 0

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. Votes: 0

Live purely in the moment on a rampage of appreciation. Votes: 0

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest. Votes: 0

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns. Votes: 0

I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical. Votes: 0

Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind. Votes: 0

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. Votes: 0

What could there be more purely bright in truth's day star? Votes: 0

As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more. Votes: 0

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer. Votes: 0

I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background. Votes: 0

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline. Votes: 0

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view. Votes: 0

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few. Votes: 0

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings. Votes: 0

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance. Votes: 0

My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part. Votes: 0

To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival. Votes: 0

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. Votes: 0

The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial. Votes: 0

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal. Votes: 0

Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me. Votes: 0

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content. Votes: 0

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed. Votes: 0

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man. Votes: 0

His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it. Votes: 0

Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion. Votes: 0

The greatest danger of traditional education is that learning may remain purely verbal. Votes: 0

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical. Votes: 0

We love purely when we release other people to be who they are. Votes: 0

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer. Votes: 0

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics. Votes: 0

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it. Votes: 0

Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden. Votes: 0

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense. Votes: 0

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. Votes: 0

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. Votes: 0

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance. Votes: 0

The state of no being, knows neither pleasure nor pain. It is purely divine. Votes: 0

You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging Votes: 0

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community. Votes: 0

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment. Votes: 0

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. Votes: 0

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. Votes: 0

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity Votes: 0

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil. Votes: 0

Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content. Votes: 0

I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining. Votes: 0

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process. Votes: 0

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. Votes: 0

Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market. Votes: 0

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference. Votes: 0

All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us. Votes: 0

We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness Votes: 0

If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists. Votes: 0

I am like a Rolls- Royce. I can run without an engine, purely on reputation Votes: 0

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. Votes: 0

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent. Votes: 0

An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms. Votes: 0

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others. Votes: 0

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films. Votes: 0

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective. Votes: 0

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money. Votes: 0

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs. Votes: 0

Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon. Votes: 0

Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing. Votes: 0

I had a dream about you last night. We watched pornography together, but purely for the storyline. Votes: 0

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate. Votes: 0

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical. Votes: 0

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality. Votes: 0

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up. Votes: 0

In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised. Votes: 0

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots... Votes: 0

Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident. Votes: 0

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one. Votes: 0

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress. Votes: 0

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new. Votes: 0

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one Votes: 0

I'm purely most happy on a film or television set. That's where I feel I am home. Votes: 0

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other. Votes: 0

The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis. Votes: 0

The more purely God's word is preached, the more deeply it pierces and the more kindly it works. Votes: 0

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come. Votes: 0

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. Votes: 0

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial. Votes: 0

Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject. Votes: 0

These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present. Votes: 0

I was a hardworking junkie. Heroin doesn't affect your brain. It doesn't touch your thinking. It's purely physical. Votes: 0

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation. Votes: 0

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones. Votes: 0

Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . . Votes: 0

The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'. Votes: 0

If I were to read about me purely on Twitter, I wouldn't know what to make of me. Votes: 0

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. Votes: 0

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies. Votes: 0

For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology. Votes: 0

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. Votes: 0

It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible. Votes: 0

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it. Votes: 0

I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism. Votes: 0

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask. Votes: 0

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class. Votes: 0

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity. Votes: 0

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both. Votes: 0

It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component. Votes: 0

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all. Votes: 0

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level. Votes: 0

She kissed her way into society. I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic. Votes: 0

I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man. Votes: 0

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. Votes: 0

The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate. Votes: 0

...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. Votes: 0

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing. Votes: 0

Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are. Votes: 0

In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary. Votes: 0

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased. Votes: 0

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart. Votes: 0

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense. Votes: 0

From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation. Votes: 0

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. Votes: 0

The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power. Votes: 0

My best friend from college engineered my record. He and I keep in touch on just a purely one-music-fan-to-another basis. Votes: 0

From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation. Votes: 0

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims. Votes: 0

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity. Votes: 0

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. Votes: 0

As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means. Votes: 0

You have to love something and have a passion for it to be disciplined. My commitment was purely to golf Votes: 0

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so. Votes: 0

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. Votes: 0

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale. Votes: 0

Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls. Votes: 0

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it. Votes: 0

All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective. Votes: 0

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits. Votes: 0

People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth. Votes: 0

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry." Votes: 0

Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. Votes: 0

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute. Votes: 0

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. Votes: 0

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated. Votes: 0

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it. Votes: 0

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. Votes: 0

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity. Votes: 0

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall. Votes: 0

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand. Votes: 0

Happiness is purely a chosen state of being available to all, at all times.I choose to be happy, because I am. Votes: 0

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate. Votes: 0

Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness. Votes: 0

A fine single malt whisky, of course, is purely medicinal - it cures all manner of ailments one may care to imagine. Votes: 0

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts. Votes: 0

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Votes: 0

When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy. Votes: 0

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. Votes: 0

Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters. Votes: 0

Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man! Votes: 0

The only instance where five purely-negative words had had a highly positive, motivational impact are Winston Churchill's, "Never, Never, Never, Never Give-up. Votes: 0

If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice. Votes: 0

Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps. Votes: 0

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason Votes: 0

Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion. Votes: 0

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan. Votes: 0

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament. Votes: 0

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own. Votes: 0

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write. Votes: 0

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me. Votes: 0

Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government? Votes: 0

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. Votes: 0

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man Votes: 0

Shaucha, or living purely, involves maintaining a cleanliness in body, mind, and environment so that we can experience ourselves at a higher resolution. Votes: 0

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. Votes: 0

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man." Votes: 0

The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable. Votes: 0

Love is purely a creation of the human imagination... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits. Votes: 0

Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government? Votes: 0

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other. Votes: 0

Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more. Votes: 0

Higher position means greater service and an apportunity to purely represent Srila Prabhupada. Hence our management must be based on humility and tolerance. Votes: 0

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body. Votes: 0

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general. Votes: 0

I know of nobody who is purely autistic, or purely neurotypical. Even God has some autistic moments, which is why the planets spin. Votes: 0

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one. Votes: 0

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective. Votes: 0

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old. Votes: 0

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability. Votes: 0

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest Votes: 0

Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me. Votes: 0

I step straight toward the female librarian. She looks soft, as if she's been raised in a box and purely milk-fed, like veal. Votes: 0

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. Votes: 0

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion. Votes: 0

I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having. Votes: 0

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem. Votes: 0

Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults. Votes: 0

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man's skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit. Votes: 0

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science. Votes: 0

Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible. Votes: 0

The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation. Votes: 0

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office. Votes: 0

I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy. Votes: 0

Singleness and marriage are both evidences of God’s grace that are to be experienced and sustained purely by the strength which God supplies. Votes: 0

If you're purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn't illuminate. Votes: 0

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American. Votes: 0

The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed. Votes: 0

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads. Votes: 0

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic. Votes: 0

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. Votes: 0

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone. Votes: 0

Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas. Votes: 0

The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken. Votes: 0

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings. Votes: 0

I mean, yeah, maybe our fate is sometimes fixed and unchangeable, but there are other times when its shaped purely by the actions we take... Votes: 0

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind. Votes: 0

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything. Votes: 0

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral. Votes: 0

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons. Votes: 0

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing. Votes: 0

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality. Votes: 0

I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass. Votes: 0

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment "“ well done, very polished, with a very effective technique "“ but not literature, just entertainment. Votes: 0

I value very much the time before the show, when there is nothing else but to concentrate on the show, and it's just purely design. Votes: 0

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. Votes: 0

Your unwillingness to change to my view point is purely on the justifiable basis that you have your own strongly held beliefs about important life issues. Votes: 0

When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music. Votes: 0

There's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their appreciation of or interest in science. Anti-science is purely a function of ignorant fundamentalism. Votes: 0

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament. Votes: 0

The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception of a common enemy. Votes: 0

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal. Votes: 0

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world. Votes: 0

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself. Votes: 0

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? Votes: 0

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers. Votes: 0

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility Votes: 0

One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity. Votes: 0

I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally. Votes: 0

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values. Votes: 0

On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development. Votes: 0

A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content. Votes: 0

Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top."). Votes: 0

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position. Votes: 0

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears! Votes: 0

If we give purely, it opens up a doorway in our heart and it gives us the vision to see that those we give to are God. Votes: 0

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts. Votes: 0

To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form. Votes: 0

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts. Votes: 0

I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity. Votes: 0

You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you. Votes: 0

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. Votes: 0

You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental. Votes: 0

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form. Votes: 0

Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful. Votes: 0

A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio. Votes: 0

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience. Votes: 0

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance. Votes: 0

I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use Votes: 0

I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing. Votes: 0

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions. Votes: 0

Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian. Votes: 0

I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500. Votes: 0

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter. Votes: 0

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so. Votes: 0

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless. Votes: 0

The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art. Votes: 0

The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale. Votes: 0

To understand something properly, we need to know it a little more; but to know someone purely, we need to understand our inner feelings truly and for sure. Votes: 0

The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life. Votes: 0

The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan. Votes: 0

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest. Votes: 0

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. Votes: 0

They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition. Votes: 0

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. Votes: 0

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true. Votes: 0

Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested but purely for the sake of enrichment. Votes: 0

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing. Votes: 0

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. Votes: 0

If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway. Votes: 0

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. Votes: 0

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing. Votes: 0

I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't. Votes: 0

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific. Votes: 0

Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night. Votes: 0

The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely. Votes: 0

Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could - should - help shape what comes next. Votes: 0

You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you. Votes: 0

Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance. Votes: 0

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure. Votes: 0

Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Votes: 0

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values. Votes: 0

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic. Votes: 0

Do not compromise on national security for purely budgetary reasons. The world is dangerous, and we must always be prepared for anything that might threaten our national interests and security. Votes: 0

My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival. Votes: 0

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one. Votes: 0

I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy. Votes: 0

For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child. Votes: 0

The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit. A pity we had to give them back. Votes: 0

Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone. Votes: 0

Doing something purely for one's own enjoyment is fine, but, I must admit, finding that others enjoy it as well has a certain power over the corners of my mouth. Votes: 0

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons. Votes: 0

When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul. Votes: 0

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code. Votes: 0

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in. Votes: 0

Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means. Votes: 0

As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, "Painters must speak through paint not through words. Votes: 0

When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation. Votes: 0

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art. Votes: 0

China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world. Votes: 0

What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I'm trying to represent the feelings that I'm feeling as purely as possible Votes: 0

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players. Votes: 0

But when States did debase the coinage, it was always from purely fiscal motives. The government needed financial help, that was all; it was not concerned with questions of currency policy. Votes: 0

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means. Votes: 0

If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing. Votes: 0

China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world. Votes: 0

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving. Votes: 0

Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage - whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their business, not the state's or the society's. Votes: 0

We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others. Votes: 0

I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio. Votes: 0

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words. Votes: 0

Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical. Votes: 0

And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing. Votes: 0

The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation. Votes: 0

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade. Votes: 0

Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort. Votes: 0

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow. Votes: 0

Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different. Votes: 0

Boring heroines are, in my opinion, the most common romance mistake. We loathe hanging out with women who define themselves purely through their relationships... why would we want to read about them? Votes: 0

Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig deep enough, and they reach common ground. Votes: 0

Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth. Votes: 0

My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms. Votes: 0

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.' Votes: 0

Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy. Votes: 0

I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules. Votes: 0

Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors. Votes: 0

John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn't weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable conservative base to a purely conservative party. Votes: 0

My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms. Votes: 0

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. Votes: 0

The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore. Votes: 0

If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while. Votes: 0

From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat. Votes: 0

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. Votes: 0

I learned from teaching. If you are perceived by the student to be belittling them or purely criticizing them without offering up words of encouragement and support, they shut down and discredit you. Votes: 0

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. Votes: 0

I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults. Votes: 0

I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults. Votes: 0

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private. Votes: 0

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place. Votes: 0

Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing the music comes from another level that is not purely personal. Votes: 0

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt. Votes: 0

I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me. Votes: 0

It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity. Votes: 0

God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong instruments are being used for the job. Votes: 0

On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported. Votes: 0

I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such an attitude bespeaks an unimaginativeness, a mental obtuseness and obstinacy. Votes: 0

We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it. Votes: 0

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal". Votes: 0

It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects. Votes: 0

With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away. Votes: 0

However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must follow by a finite number of purely logical processes. Votes: 0

I have not met [Donald] Trump and discussed any issues with him. There have been Republican administrations like the [George] Bush administration who initiated this AIDS generosity. So it's not purely a right-left thing. Votes: 0

If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam. Votes: 0

What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests. Votes: 0

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known. Votes: 0

I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook. Votes: 0

Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy ... Votes: 0

What moved me to do what I did was purely my faith. I was motivated by the law that commands me to cut off the head of anyone who insults Allah and his Prophet. Votes: 0

I am purely evil; Hear the thrum of my evil engine; Evilly I come. The stars are thick as flowers In the meadows of July; A fine night for murder Winging through the sky. Votes: 0

She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What was important was what you did, not how you felt. Votes: 0

PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another. Votes: 0

When you look at nutrition from a purely scientific point of view, there is no place for consciousness. And yet, consciousness could be one of the crucial determinants of the metabolism of food itself. Votes: 0

It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences. Votes: 0

When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible. Votes: 0

How many days do you have that are just purely dramatic? How many days do you have that are just purely comedic? It's usually a combination and I think that's what real life feels like. Votes: 0

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish. Votes: 0

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions. Votes: 0

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions. Votes: 0

It's important to fight for your character but at the same time realize there's a bigger picture involved and, you know, this is a character that's shared by everybody. It's not just purely your own. Votes: 0

To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere; it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings - a reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once. Votes: 0

Modeling is an industry that judges you purely by looks. Today you are on the top of your game and tomorrow a new face arrives and all eyes are on her. It happens every season. Votes: 0

At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate. Votes: 0

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth Votes: 0

My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don't believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it's purely luck. Votes: 0

It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way. Votes: 0

Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability. Votes: 0

I wouldn't put myself in that bracket, but it's one of those things. I think what helps is that we [with Tom Hardey] don't socialize, we don't really know each other, we purely work together. Votes: 0

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way. Votes: 0

The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me? Votes: 0

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy. Votes: 0