#purely

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

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. ↗

— O. Henry

#american #day #one day #ours #purely

It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#carnal #directed #even #i #imagined

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#great #i #i am #i think #musical

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#appropriate #cannot #church #civil #civil society

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. ↗

— George Ripley

#attachment #cause #devotion #discussion #down

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

— Richard King

#make #money #movie #never #purely

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#infrequent #ministers #nature #official #purely

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#cog #enormous #form #hands #his

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#cameron #cynical #david #i #i am