Purple Quotes - Page 6

• I said you [Mike Pence] can't give me this [Purple Heart]. He said, "Mr. Trump you mean so much to me and my family." You know we're doing very well with the veterans. I know you guys do not like to say that.

  Donald Trump

  Heart, Mean, Giving

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You're a black belt in the 1st round but sometimes you're a purple belt in the 5th.

  Gilbert Melendez

  Mma, Black, Sometimes

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• President Obama is in China now for an economic summit in Beijing. The president wore a traditional purple silk shirt along with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. That's after they taught Putin how to put a shirt ON.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Chinese, President, Taught

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• Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.

  Flora Thompson

  Sunshine, Yellow, Gold

  Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages.  You’ll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive.

  Peter Golenbock

  Character, Opportunity, Twenties

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• I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.

  Paul Verlaine

  Gold

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• If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Grief, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

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• The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.

  James Elkins

  Sunset, Dark, Sky

  James Elkins (2007). “How to Use Your Eyes”, p.215, Routledge

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• My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.

  Andrea Barber

  Character, Yellow, Feet

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• I think purple is the only color that suits me most.

  Onew

  Thinking, Color, Suits

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• Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Glasses, Zion

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Gormenghast”, p.226, The Overlook Press

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• Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.

  William Somervile

  Sky, Way, Dawn

  "The Chace" by William Somervile, (Bk. II, line 79), 1735.

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• At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything.

  David Sedaris

  Air, Lunch, Glasses

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• Who says you can't rock Wall Street and wear purple at the same time? Jennifer Lee opens the door for artists, healers, and brilliant souls to take their passion into the marketplace.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Wall, Passion, Artist

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• In Indiana, I wasn't anything special. But in New York, I've gone out with girls with purple hair who go out with me because I'm exotic!

  Jim Gaffigan

  Girl, New York, Hair

  "Comic Gaffigan Gets A Hayseed's Welcome to New York". "Sun-Sentinel" Newspaper, December 27, 2000.

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• My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two worlds. And by those criteria, 'The Color Purple' is actually exactly the kind of story that makes for a great musical. Yes, it's got hard stuff in it, but so does 'Les Miserables' and 'Phantom of the Opera.'

  Marsha Norman

  Simple, Views, Color

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• I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

  Jim Lehrer

  Wine, Blue, Ties

  "PBS’s Judy Woodruff, Jim Lehrer reflect on prior presidential races". Interview with Betsy Rothstein, thehill.com. September 8, 2008.

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• I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

  Paul Ince

  Soccer, Football, Yellow

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• First of all, Vickie's wearing purple. She looks like Barney.

  Matt Striker

  Wwe, Looks, Firsts

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• This Fruity Pebble that ya dealin' with, I ain't ya average jabroni. I'm like a big purple pinwheel, Rock, so go ahead and blow me.

  John Cena

  Blow, Average, Wwe

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• Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth. This arcane act of nature, though perceived by us as ordinary, is a manifestation of Maya's phantom play, the great immensity expressed in every way. My garden is the universe. I am the universe. I am my garden. All things are the same.

  Duane Michals

  Garden, August, Play

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• Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Morning, Wrinkles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

  Ron Kovic

  Stars, Heart, Two

  "Ron Kovic: Peace movement will be largest ever". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2003.

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• When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in this manner they suffered death without resistance or supplication. Such conduct was in them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in the hapless Indians it was reviled as both obstinate and sullen. How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! How different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilderness.

  Washington Irving

  Rome, Waste, Resistance

  Washington Irving (1983). “History, Tales, and Sketches”, p.1011, Library of America

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• Subpersonalities can exist at different levels or memes, however, so that one can indeed have a purple subpersonality, a blue subpersonality, and so on. These often are context-triggered, so that one can have quite different types of moral responses, affects, needs, etc., in different situations.

  Ken Wilber

  Blue, Different, Needs

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.149, Shambhala Publications

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