Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black Elk

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.
Lope de Vega

Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
Lope de Vega

He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.
Venerable Bede

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Meister Eckhart

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
Thomas Kempis

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
Irving Langmuir

However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.
Ian Hamilton Finlay

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
Katherine Anne Porter

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.
Janos Kadar

I am too pure for you or anyone.
Sylvia Plath

I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.
Ritchie Blackmore

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
Jacques Derrida

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
Tanya Tucker

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.
Donald Judd

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
Adele

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.
John Pople