Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

David Hare

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

Paul Bettany

It can be taken as that `we're not functioning as boards of racial purity with a board of white guys that sit around and decide who's an Indian and who's not.'

Ward Churchill

Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality.

Dave Sim

It's the purity of the fabrics, the sensuality of the look and the fact that everything's carefully hand-done.

Nazila Sawhney

The lilies are for purity. Then there's maternal protection in the base panel, depicted by a bird attacking a viper to protect her young.

Dot Davis

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

Alfred Hitchcock

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

Felix Adler

This is a dilemma that always crops up with interest groups that too narrowly define themselves on one issue or another. Do they hold politicians to a standard of purity that ends up hurting them, the interest group? Do you let perfect be the enemy of the good? That is the dilemma they face.

Kelly Fero

He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.

Mimi Rogers

Once it gets there it opens up two covers and deploys high purity materials which are then used to collect the solar wind one atom at a time.

Don Burnett

The purity of doing things to drive processor revenue is over. This is designed to drive revenue, and it's possible that they could become the No. 1 or 2 player. They may not understand the business, but they can hire people that do.

Scott Randall

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

Louis Farrakhan

They raised 62,340 pennies. These kids, in all their purity and innocence, were reaching out to kids halfway around the world.

Greg Mortenson

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Margaret Fuller

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Matthew Henry

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

Hugh Blair

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Thomas Kempis

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

Derek Jarman

Betting undercuts the integrity and purity of an athletic event.

Thomas Grey

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and the of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Chanakya

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

Mark Burnett