#purity

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

#does #even #inaction #iron #loses

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#conviction #done #go #going #heart

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't. ↗

— Jo Brand

#because #either #i #jokes #laugh

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

#beauty #bush #find #focus #heart

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#purity #well

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor. ↗

— John Woolman

#certainty #continent #cries #ears #favor

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#activist #agenda #ahead #hard #ideological

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

— Matthew Henry

#peace #preserve #purity #way

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 equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#arm #asthmatic #carrying #equalled #his

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#concern #improvement #more #motives #purity