The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
William Shakespeare
Experience is pure gold. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted.
Ann Landers
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
Booker T. Washington
I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
Steve Jobs
I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
Steve Prefontaine
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Meister Eckhart
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
Alexander Hamilton
Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.
Lope De Vega
Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
Lope De Vega
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
Peace Pilgrim
All lovers live by longing, and endure; summon a vision and declare it pure.
Theodore Roethke
Even if they send pure Muslim or Arab troops we will consider them invaders and will fight them.
Fatahi Khalil
This really has very little to do with the hurricanes or relief efforts or even refiners. This is deregulation pure and simple.
John Walke
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold Niebuhr
There will be selective application against Arabs and Muslims and this is pure form of discrimination.
Nihad Awad
Our victory is as pure as a diamond.
Velimir Ilic
What irritates me about it is I know they haven't gotten gas in days. Their gas came in four or five days ago. The previous owner wouldn't change his prices, either up or down, until he got another load of gas. It's just a matter of profiteering, pure and simple.
Bill Burke
This is Janet-come-lately. I'm glad she's finally waking up to the crisis. I wish it was more than pure politics.
Russell Pearce
Even a teenager here can identify pure gold. So we cannot afford any cheating.
Abdul Karim
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
E. B. White
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer
She has a big heart and she's so pure. We always pray together and when I'm at the free-throw line, Natalie will look at me and give me a little sign.
Chrissey Cruz
I love pure music, but you get a more complete package with opera. It's theater, it's music, it's drama, it's scenic design.
Frank Mcclain
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
Alfred De Musset
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
Hortense Calisher
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Sir Arthur Eddington
There is a greater justice, and that is before the Lord. That justice is perfect and pure and we may have to wait to see what exactly what that is.
Scott Willis
The ball is the ball; it's identical in every environment. But the way it gets delivered is unique to specific environments. The fact that the idea is simple and pure lends it to extension. Play is a cause that kids can take up.
Chris Cancilla
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold Niebuhr
It's not a disease. It's not contagious. They should understand that it's a story of pure love. They don't have to be a hero. They don't have to be brave like us. I guess a little bit of maturity is being asked for because society has been immature in the past. That's about it.
Heath Ledger
Jake is a great talent, ... He's the prototypical quarterback - great size, great arm. He is somebody that should be reckoned with in Delaware as a pure passer.
Jeff Weiner
She came here to change her life, to get her daughter back - that was what was real and pure in her world. She would do everything she had to do to accommodate that wish.
Andrew Lloyd
For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.
George B. Leonard
Was driven by pure hatred. There is no excuse for what he did.
James Brooks
When one pauses to consider how thoroughly corrupted our censors must be by this time, it is difficult to have any faith whatever in their judgement of what is and is not corrupting to others. If to the pure all things are pure, it may well follow that to the corrupted all things are corrupt.
Judith Wright
Recent divestitures have created a pure-play military tactical vehicle company.
Byron Callan
To me, that smells of pure politics.
Dane Waters
There is the only pure negative. That is the concern about addiction and people losing too much money, ... we've got a problem and we are going to tackle it.
Peter Hart
The most beautiful bridge in the world. so pure, so resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel architecture seems to laugh.
Le Corbusier
I love creatures in their pure form.
Ben Kingsley
It's just pure science, no applied science. There's no practical application. It's just finding out something that wasn't known before.
Anna Hoppe
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.
Daniel Smith
You have to be perceived as pure if you want a shot in this campaign.
John Nienstedt
It was a gift to be able to work on a show that gave so many people pure joy.
Stephen Collins
White is a trend unto itself. From very pure, stark white to ecru, you can look at white as an entire color family. White is the neutral of the season against which all other colors are paired.
Gregg Andrews
The Expo focuses on designing a project and working with somebody. It's more of a contact management business than pure retail.
Curtis Chambers
The dollar is only down a tad, so it is looking like a pure gold move.
Ross Norman
To win Oktoberfest is just awesome. I've been coming here since I was a little kid. Yeah, we had something we liked (in a set-up). The car handled awesome. The main thing I was thinking was to put cars down (a lap). We've had good cars all year. The last half of the year thing really picked up. The first half, we had pure bad luck.
Tim Schendel
That is just pure (determination) because Maggie is giving away like 6 inches there, and she went up and got that rebound. That's probably why we win. That rebound was the play.
Bill Resler
We're going to migrate GE's customers from pure EDI to a mixed EDI/Web marketplace. We will provide support in that community. We need to turn long-term relationships into new ones.
Suaad Sait
You can run, jump all you want. But it's pure technique. I've seen guys try things that might work in college, but no way in heck would they work here.
Lance Johnstone
I have worked with a number of leveler types in the past, including pure manual and hydraulic. With this one, we don't have to deal with the time and expense involved with digging and pouring a concrete pit.
Patrick Mccoy
Desert War is thriving in Melbourne. He's actually put on weight since he's been down there and it's not fat, it's pure muscle.
Gai Waterhouse
He can shoot the ball. His form is better than Bryce's. He and Jake have a better pure shot.
Matt Mckay
This movie works, but it's pure luck.
Joel Schumacher
There is going to be lineup a mile long a mile wide for this plant. The winner will be the jurisdiction that will pay for it, pure and simple.
Dennis Desrosiers
Just from a pure motivation standpoint and the way he gets out there and plays the game it's uplifting to everybody.
Monty Beisel
Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.
Barbara Schapiro
Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them.
Owen Meredith
This an animal abuse case. This is pure and simple murder.
Bonnie Reed
We thought this case was pure intimidation; the only thing stopping us from getting the murderer brought to justice is secrecy.
Catherine Mccartney
We came well-prepared and I give credit to all the boys. It was pure hard work.
Nel Parado
He's big on that, they're all big on that. They're all big on anti-God, Satanism. They're really just pure hate is the way the entire group is. I know all of them, I'm acquaintances of all of them -- I wouldn't say friends, but I don't reject them.
Brooks Brown
In order to stay with the roots of Irish music -- it's kind of like classical music -- you need to study it in its pure form. What we try to do is keep it to its original roots.
Gary Burman
In the '70s, when I started here, your heroin was probably 7 to 15 percent pure. It was cut with cornstarch and everything else.
Chief Charles Huska
She's a pure athlete who has a lot of really good tools. She's a great defensive player, she hits well and she has good speed. She has a lot going for her.
Natalie Peters
He was in some kind of zone. They were all pure.
John Mcneley
Sometimes people put too much meaning into things. Liking something for pure aesthetics can be great.
Greg T. Spielberg
They're pure showgirl birds, a touch of Las Vegas maybe. That's pure Julie stuff.
David Kneuss
Pure instinct. That's a young boy out there doing what he does best. Reacting.
Pedro Mart
Colgate has to pay attention to these kinds of people. This still needs to be seen as a 'pure' brand.
Keith Murray
Does anyone believe that Julie should be prosecuted for a felony or a misdemeanor as a result of an accident, a pure accident? So that's where we are...we're at an impasse because they have taken the initiative to launch a criminal investigation.
Michael Morchower
There are no pure, pure climber's stages, no 10-mile, 14-percent brutes. And there are no bone-flat sprinters' stages, either.
Jeff Corbett
His was a very different audition. He had something special. This boy is pure; he's not contaminated and has an inner life that he brought to the character.
Luis Mandoki
Pure by impure is not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals.
Cliff Shaw
The most enjoyable thing for me is having the feeling of being in pure nature where you're there and usually alone. It's like you're the first one to ever be there. Everything is perfectly pristine and very quiet - snow dampens all the sound.
Alvin Anderson
It was nothing but pure fun.
Frankie Avalon
Dan is going to be very competitive this year. I bet we'll have 22 to 24 cars this year (in Pure Stocks). It's going to be a great year. We have five new guys coming in who will be good.
Butch Behn
I was happy with Pure at the time, but I've moved on so much.
Hayley Westenra
Pure TNT is extraordinarily dangerous and may be linked towards trying to circumvent the process of making a nuclear device.
Magnus Ranstorp
That's really just the price of admission, and I'd give up 5 percent on pure entertainment value alone.
Anthony Curtis
Brian is going to be special. He's more of a pure passer. Gerald is also excellent, though he's more of a scrambler.
Mike Aruanno
She's one of the most pure hitters I've had.
Randy Wilstead
I guess they didn't have [Harper] in their [scouting] report. His shot is so pure.
John Gordon
For me, the summer will be pure gray -- mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.
Gianni Versace
She's great for the game. She has that combination of glamour and hard work ethic, ... I think her motives are pure as far as, it means more to her to win tennis tournaments than to be on the cover of a magazine.
Chris Evert
Threats of black-listing have no place in Democratic politics. It's a disgusting tactic and it's been done out of pure desperation.
Colin Strother
Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisiteas the pure love of one woman for another?
Mary Maclane
You'll have to leave your studio, Bill. You'll encounter pure evil. If you're like me, you'll be scared ... and you'll finally be using your talents for an important cause.
Nicholas Kristof
The music now is about my personal life, where I'm at as a 24-year-old young woman, so it's very honest and it's very pure and it's very emotional.
Debbie Gibson
It's pure luck, we wanted to ensure there was no skill needed. Everyone will walk away with something.
Steve Wolstenholme
There is no reason to be intimidated because once I get inside these lines, anything can happen. People my height, we go up with pure heart.
Jamelle Cornley
Would it be fun to watch Muhammad Ali box Muhammad Ali? Would it be fun to watch 10 Michael Jordans out on the basketball floor? What we do is part business and part fun, and it's part science and part art. If it becomes pure business and pure science, I don't want to play any more.
Dan Rosenberg
When you're trying to find that line between are you doing comedy, are you doing drama, what are you doing, Martin, for me, anchors it very often, because he approaches it from such just a pure acting standpoint.
Orlando Jones
The spacecraft was designed to settle to a pure simple spin motion around the antenna axis.
Junichiro Kawaguchi
The bottom line, from a pure dollars and cents standpoint, is going to be better in a high-volume situation.
Larry Siebert
She's a pure leader, and our best golfer.
Joe Konrad
They've got much more opportunity on the upside, as they continue to build their infrastructure, ... When you compare it to pure biotech companies, it tends to have more certainty about where it's headed.
Shawn Johnson
It would have been a long bus ride home. You have to have some luck to win big games and 99 percent of this win was pure luck. We dodged one.
Nyla Milleson
This was pure terror. And the seeds that we now see played out in so many countries in so many parts of the Islamic world.
Robin Wright
Police will investigate whether the incident was a pure accident or a crime due to negligence.
Bambang Kuncoko
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Greg Anderson
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
Conor Oberst
The development of the pure vegetable oil sector could be an incredible opportunity to attract young people to the farming profession at a time of depopulation of the countryside.
Alain Juste
She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault.
Henry James
It was just pure excitement. We screamed.
Nancy Taylor
Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good.
White Eagle
We just battled all night and never quit. It was pure hard work. It was a very rewarding victory.
Luc Robitaille
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.
Elie Wiesel
My first reaction was pure shock. I was numb and could not believe that it was happening.
Ken Bowersox
Although you hear great things about hotel recovery, the industry is still not back. Lots of inner-city construction is not feasible for a pure and simple hotel. It doesn't work.
Patrick Ford
As city people move out to these suburbs, the days of pure Republicanism are over. There is a tidal wave that's changing the politics out there.
Dick Simpson
Our victory is as pure as a diamond, ... Kostunica is the elected president and we must persist in our resistance.
Velimir Ilic
He is flat out fast. He has been clocked in the 40-yard dash at 4.2 and they call that pure speed.
Joel Desselle
These weren't unforced errors; these were pure winners, ... This was artistic play. You had to think tactics out there. You had to have guts out there.
Luke Jensen
He's a great player. There's not much you can do. He shoots it really pure and he can take you off the dribble ... He's just a great player and a great guy.
Andrew Strait
I have no fondness for pure form at all.
Peter Porter
Most true artists care about music as a pure, passionate art form, but can get caught in the trap of the business. Which, sadly, has now become more important than the artist or even the music itself.
Rosanna Arquette
She's had a really good season. It's really been a breakout season. She's battled injuries all season, but she's a pure shooter and she's made it a good year.
Gordy Presnell
The feeling from Greenspan's point of view is that you don't want a pure academic for this post because that person may not have enough political savvy and enough market sense.
David M. Jones
They beat us on pure hustle. They wanted it more than we did and that's why they have it.
Greg Tharrington
This more pure measure has a nearly perfect prediction pattern dating back to 1966, with leads of 9-20 months.
Mike Englund
Hopefully in the future, children will read this book with their quilts and be able to forget about their cancer even for just a moment. That one moment of pure happiness is what makes the whole project worthwhile.
Taylor Mann
By pure accident, they have created a huge hot spot on Main Street.
Frank Caruso
Because we're small we get to know each other well and sometimes I feel like we play basketball more for the love of the game, pure and simple.
Scottie Parker
It still seems somewhat of a pure event, something that athletes are doing for the pure joy of sports and winning.
Howard Bloom
I was on Memorial Bridge heading home when I saw the black smoke pouring out from the trees. I called 911 and headed toward the house. I thought a house was on fire. It was pure black.
Richard Sherman
Water used to be fresh, pure and drinkable, now the water has lots of fecal matter and bacteria.
Claudine Sierra
People break down into two groups when the experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.
M. Night Shyamalan
Mays won't come off the field. He's not a pure passer, but he does OK.
Monte Kohler
We were assuming a transition between IPv4 and pure IPv6. The good news is that there is also a transition path from NAT and RSIP to IPv6.
Brian Carpenter
Just pure dominance on her part. She took control when we needed her to.
Steve Shepanski
This is their job, and they're paid as we sell their work. And it's pure art. They have no formal training or knowledge. It's what comes out of their heads and their souls.
Cheryl Fey
He was a pure Irishman, for sure, smiling and very fun-loving.
Anthony Kim
Ronnie was pure gold in triplicate - as a performer, a writer and a friend.
Ronnie Corbett
If you look at it in terms of pure economics their investment in Australia must be under question.
Graeme Maxton
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.
Gustave Flaubert
The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.
Dr. Richard Selzer
It is pure Kafka to illegally throw a man in jail on charges of nothing and then make it impossible for him to protest the illegality.
John Moustakas
We're going to be a better hitting team than passing team. Our setters are going to be good leaders for us. I've got more confidence in them as pure setters.
Kari Rosenberg
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart.
Chris Millette
For an item that has been continued for more than three years, any observation on what might happen in the future is pure speculation.
Bob Pederson
On a pure dollars-and-cents basis, the difference is that with the traditional 401(k) you get the tax break now, while with the Roth 401(k) the tax break comes later.
Michael Boone
Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.
The Book of the Dead
Be every mourner's sleep tonight / Like infant's slumbers, pure and light.
John Keble
If you go outside and dig down 8 inches and have pure sand — that's where our fires occur. The plants are stressed, the ground is dry and we get these windy days. What could be a little fire could turn into a big fire quickly.
Scott Peterich
The Depression was very bad here. You can imagine how hard it was in Mexico. You can't put 16 years of pure hell out of your mind.
Ignacio Piña
For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony. . .
Lotte Lehmann
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Minna Antrim
(Harper) realizes he can't afford to be pure on issues.
Paul Thomas
We try to pick companies that dominate their niche. So we think there are lots of opportunities to sort of identify pure plays.
David Kaslow
Pure innovation is more gross than error.
George Chapman
[NEW YORK (CNN) -- In his monologue] Swimming to Cambodia, ... Thailand, the Pure Land.
Spalding Gray
God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the car -- out of pure malevolence no doubt -- changed the history of the world by reinventing man.
Harry Crews
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.
The Dhammapada
I had the luxury of playing 18 as a pure, three-shot par-5. I played well. I putted well. I didn't make any mistakes and — except for Tom — there wasn't anybody who made a tremendous charge.
David Eger
The theory of computation has traditionally been studied almost entirely in the abstract, as a topic in pure mathematics. This is to miss the point of it. Computers are physical objects, and computations are physical processes. What computers can or cannot compute is determined by the laws of physics alone, and not by pure mathematics.
David Deutsch
Whether there's enough heat to actually get the chemistry [of life] going is pure speculation at this point. But it's certainly intriguing.
Michael Shara
With technology issues removed from the equation, the e-commerce operator only needs to consider tax treatment, labor costs, and other pure business issues.
Ron Z. Mendelson
We're pretty kid-friendly. With the pure kids' shows, all the songs are up-tempo. We keep it moving.
Doug Green
I don't know how they can look at what they are trying to do and come to any other conclusion in that a constitutional amendment to prohibit my family from access to civil marriage is just discrimination, pure and simple.
Lisa Polyak
We feel the best approach is online and brick-and-mortar, not pure plays.
Debra Lambert
It's important to use pure, not imitation extracts. The flavor of pure extracts is intense and unmistakable. And if you can find an extract from the Dominican Republic or another country in the Caribbean, all the better.
Rodrigo Larenas
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Saint Augustine
Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
Jack Kroll
This is a great next step after the Brazilian Court, which is a boutique level. [The Georgian Terrace] will be pure hotel on one side and pure condo on the other.
David Barton
I had been an 800 runner and I loved the 1,500, but not the 5,000. He said I didn't have the pure leg speed for the 800 and if I wanted to excel after college I should run the longer distances.
Dave Fleming
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
Mary Sarton
She was a pure angel.
Jerry Maren
It's totally free. It is the complete freedom of performance, ... The first time (the monologue is) performed is when you see it on TV, and it'll never be seen again. It's pure TV. Bam! It's there, and then it's gone.
Craig Ferguson
The real Simon Pure.
Susannah Centlivre
Sleeping on something has a lot of power for a lot of reasons. One is that the linear mind is shut off during sleep, so it's pure intuition.
Judith Orloff
I was just bawling. That's when I realized this guy was for real. His heart is so pure.
Christina Lee
What we were able to identify over five years is that hospitals that won more than once had a pure focus on continuous quality improvement. What the consumer can depend on with this list is that these hospitals are consistently good performers.
Jean Chenoweth
Essentially, the whole thing is literally a refinancing mechanism. It's just pure plain and simple, the company needs to be recapitalized.
John Titler
For the record, there is no architectural shift involved [for Notes/Domino], it is pure growth with no regression. There will be continued support for all Notes applications.
Mike Rhodin
I prefer simple, pure composing. No action notes.
Yu Zhiliang
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Hosea Ballou
On absolute pure form, there could have been no argument.
Matt Dawson
That was pure profit for them.
Larry Delo
We are out here like pure animals. We don't have help.
Jeanne Clark
The market was very nervous in the last minutes as (the tech-heavy U.S.) Nasdaq dove sharply. It was pure Nasdaq influence - nothing else.
Gabriel Jafet
Brahman is the only Reality, ever pure, ever illumined, ever free, beyond the limits of time, space, and causation. Though apparently divided by names and forms through the inscrutable power of maya, that enchantress who makes the impossible possible, Brahman is really One and undivided.
Al ghazali
They've got all the drama and hype — we have the great basketball game. Detroit and San Antonio might not be glamour cities like Los Angeles and Miami, but both teams play pure basketball the way its meant to be played.
Maurice Evans
It's almost a pure reflection of market volatility.
Jim Lowell
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