#pure

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all. ↗

— Benjamin C. Bradlee

#american politics #bodies #clout #had #history

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#pure #faith

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? ↗

— Harry Shearer

#absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #corrupts #does

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. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#airline #belief #cash #comforting #control

A soul that is transformed by principles exudes holiness and a sense of pureness that is beyond our imagination. ↗

— Garey Gordon

#pureness #soul #imagination

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. ↗

— Karl Pearson

#apparently #carried #dealing #description #endless

An evil can only be killed by another kind of evil, because the pure spirit of peace can not do killing. ↗

— Toba Beta

#evil #kill #life #peace #pure-spirit

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. ↗

— Margaret Carlson

#being #bush #domestic #eavesdropping #his

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit. ↗

— Criss Jami

#compelling #consideration #constructive-criticism #demean #demeaning

I blame boobs. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#boobs #pure #seth #blame