Pure States

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or states:

“He gathers deeds
In the pure air, the agent
Of their factual excesses.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadership in industry. Must we always wait for war to give us opportunity? And must the pendulum always swing back in the busy world of work and workers during times of peace?”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)