#purely

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. ↗

— Peter Singer

#get #global #going #i #i think

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. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#analysis #between #conditions #defective #directed

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. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#coincidence #got #hand #him #his

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. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#fear #his #holy #intention #just

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

— Jacques Ellul

#compelling #exercise #force #game #internal

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

— Howard Fineman

#does #exist #objective #politics #purely

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends

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. ↗

— Amy Tan

#aesthetic #art #become #craft #first

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

— Chico Hamilton

#because #being #desire #i #luckily

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. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#art #conception #contemporary #decorative #deny