Top Purge Quotes & Sayings

The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time. — Richard M. Nixon

Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock of God's promises, and it was indeed a precious resting place, but now I rest in His grace. He is teaching me that the bosom of His love is a far sweeter resting-place than even the rock of His promises. — Hannah Whitall Smith

My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common. — Alice Hoffman

My feet beat out a steady muffled rhythm. My thoughts participated in each step, never getting ahead of me. — Rory Stewart

The decision to feed the world
is the real decision. No revolution
has chosen it. For that choice requires
that women shall be free. — Adrienne Rich

Don't. Please don't say it."
I search his eyes. For what, I don't know. "Why?"
"Because I don't want you to. I need you to come back to me. Not to help me. Or to help my father. I'm done with that. I don't want your help. It all boils down to you. I just want you. — M. Leighton

these guys have either hired a top notch personal data scrubbing service, or one or the other of them is a wizard able to do it himself. Their data footprints are even smaller than personnel working in some of the most highly classified government operations. I would swear they never existed except for the fact that they are giving us the finger. And I don't think that was an accident, given the thoroughness of their data purge. — J.E. Maxwell

I am drunk with the beauty of life, I am at the verge of insanity. Every moment is a pearl of my life, so I have to enjoy every one of them. — Debasish Mridha

I continue to wish that writing were easier, that it would flow out completely perfect with no need for revisions. — Ann Turner

In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country. — Farah Diba

Granada had never been on the water before and she marveled at how the creek was a living thing with a will of its own, like an untamed horse challenging her to ride upon its back. — Jonathan Odell

All I can say is, it's a good thing we didn't win the revolution [laughter]. We would've ended up with people like Abie Hoffman and Eldridge Cleaver at the helm; we would've been in big trouble. Big trouble. It would've been such a Stalinist purge ... All those people that were the top names in those movements back then were all egotistical assholes, it turned out, every single one of them [laughter]. — Robert Crumb

In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top with the phone saying 'Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine.' The trunks shudder — Jeanette Winterson