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

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

- Rudolf Nureyev

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

- Marianne Faithfull

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

- Matthew Henry

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

- Mahatma Gandhi

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

- Louis Farrakhan

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

- Jonathan Haidt

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

- Jim DeMint

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

- Juvenal

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

- Barry Mann

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

- James Madison

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

- Goldwin Smith

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

- Fisher Ames

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

- Felix Adler

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

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

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

- David Hare

I've been a huge fan of virtually every incarnation and spin-off of the 'Star Trek' franchise (don't get me started on 'Voyager,' though), but there's something about the purity of the original series that really appeals to me.

- Chris Roberson

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