Top 1175 Purely Quotes & Sayings

A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.

Nobody acts purely selfishly.

Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's all about how you react to that music or wine.

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

When I read, I'm purely a reader.

I don't think anyone is purely evil or purely brilliant, certainly for Prince Charles.

I've always said this: Edge is purely a character.

That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written for audiences that want to see the same thing enacted over and over and over again. But the middle is where most people read and most people write.

Humanism cannot survive on a purely secular platform.

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

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

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.

My departure from Arsenal was purely for sporting reasons.

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

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

I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.

No film can do well purely on the basis of dance.

I am purely a technocrat and I reject all ideological labels.

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

The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were the story tellers, and the stories were allegorically written truths: where we came from, how we migrated over this river, got with this tribe, became this nation, and tamed the mountains. It changed from that to being purely entertainment. And once it became purely entertainment, it lost something.

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

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

I really wanted Rachel [from the Girl on The Train] to be purely fixated on fantasy and on her ex-husband.I didn't want her to be embarking on romance, touching people; I wanted her purely in the realm of fantasy and frustration and dreaming and sadness.

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

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

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

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

If you want to look at a purely socialized health care, you would have to go to the United States, where we have it. In particular, that's the system we reserve for our veterans. So if I hear politicians run down socialized medicine - and I have done that before the Congress - I say: Do you hate your veterans? Why do you reserve purely socialized medicine - there's only the U.S. and Cuba that have that - for the veterans? So getting the terms right would be very, very helpful in our national conversation on health reform.

A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts.

I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background.

When I read, I'm purely a reader

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

When I began my career, I worked purely for the money.

I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B.

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

Live purely in the moment on a rampage of appreciation.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.

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

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

I have passed on on a lot of roles. I purely and simply do what I like.

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

I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.

To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book - that's a fantasy - and I don't do fantasy.

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits.

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.

You know policy is driven purely in self interest. The Federal Reserve Bank and the commercial banks and the Wall Street banks are not acting in the interests of the population at large, they're acting purely in their own self-interest, which is a shame because they're actions dictate the reality for 300 million Americans. But they don't see it that way, they see it only as a way to preserve their own self-interest.

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.

I try and live my life simply and purely.

The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.

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

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

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

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

... inventions and purely human institutions.

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