All Quotes

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

Puppet camp truly redefined my preconceptions of puppetry... I'll never forget learning that before a puppet can speak... he has to inhale. It's those details that make the characters truly come to life.
‐‐ Rob McClure

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.
‐‐ Nigel Farage

Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You're juggling ten balls instead of three.
‐‐ Duke Johnson

Puppets seem like vampires sometimes. They live, and you're depleted.
‐‐ Henry Selick

Puppies, like all babies, grow up fast. Before long, Gracie was no longer barking at her reflection, instead offering a blase look that seemed to say, 'I know what that is now. I know it's not another dog.'
‐‐ Patti Davis

Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence. There's an intense, dirty harmony, but there's a Louis XIV kind of elan and style, too. He had the melancholy DNA of our national folk heritage.
‐‐ Charles Hazlewood

Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods.
‐‐ Cat Cora

Purchased experiences don't count.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing.
‐‐ Jonathan Zittrain

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
‐‐ Raoul Vaneigem

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.
‐‐ Michael Jordan

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.
‐‐ Andy Kaufman

Pure Flix makes evangelistic films, but we also make family films. I think the viewer wants to see quality entertainment that the whole family can watch, and many nonbelievers watch our films because they can watch with their family and young kids.
‐‐ David A. R. White

Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
‐‐ T. E. Hulme

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
‐‐ Francis of Assisi

Pure innovation is more gross than error.
‐‐ George Chapman

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way. I help panhandlers, but other people are, 'Oh look at that - why doesn't he get a job?' While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.
‐‐ Neil Peart

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
‐‐ Alexandre Dumas

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
‐‐ Peace Pilgrim

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
‐‐ Andrew Wiles

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
‐‐ G. H. Hardy

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
‐‐ Edmund Husserl

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.
‐‐ Huston Smith

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
‐‐ Henri Frederic Amiel

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
‐‐ Venerable Bede

Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.
‐‐ Brian Sutton-Smith

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.
‐‐ Emma Goldman

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
‐‐ Leland Ryken

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
‐‐ Thomas a Kempis

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
‐‐ Cyril Connolly

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
‐‐ Georges Bernanos

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
‐‐ David Hare

Purity of heart is to will one thing.
‐‐ Soren Kierkegaard

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

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

Purple and yellow are my colors.
‐‐ Stewart Rahr

Purple lipstick? Naw, that looks stupid on all girls!
‐‐ ASAP Rocky

'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.
‐‐ Lauren Willig

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
‐‐ Philip Johnson

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
‐‐ Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically complicated than sending young people into this same neurological danger zone as soldiers.
‐‐ Alice Dreger

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
‐‐ Monica Edwards

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
‐‐ Carl von Clausewitz