Stains Quotes

• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Friendship, Patience, Truth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  People, World, Catchy

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• The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Real, Heart, Water

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• Only the heart without a stain knows ease.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Ease, Knows

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• Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

  Gayle Forman

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.103, Penguin

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• Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  White, Doubt, Clean

  "Antonio Tabucchi: A Committed Doubter". Interview with Asbel Lopez, UNESCO Courier, November 1999.

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• There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life ...for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious thing we call 'influence' ...yet everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.

  J.B. Miller

  Leadership, Hurt, Mysterious Things

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• No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

  Sophocles

  Noble, Speech

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• Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Dust, Hem

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.162, New World Library

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• It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wall, Fire, Clouds

  Quoted in Irma A Richter (ed) Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1977).

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• A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.

  Anne Carson

  Tea, Pages, Attractive

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• Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
  Stains the white radiance of eternity.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 52

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• God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Pain, Tribulation

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• Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.

  Johnny Cash

  Feelings, Disappear, Stills

  Song: Hurt So Bad, Album: American IV: The Man Comes Around, 2002

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• To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.

  Sri Chinmoy

  May, Causes, Individual

  "Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants". Poetry series by Sri Chinmoy (#14805, Part 37), 1983.

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• You worthless sonofabitch. You should never have been anything more than a cum stain! (Stryker)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Should, Has Beens, Worthless

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.747, Macmillan

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• The woman who wrote the movie [Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains], her name is Nancy Dowd. She's a wonderful writer. She wrote Coming Home. And when I read the script, at that time, I thought, "This movie is going to do for girls what Breaking Away did for boys." I thought it was going to be huge. It was a great script.

  Brent Spiner

  Girl, Home, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It’s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark.

  Philip Roth

  Errors, Grace, Abuse

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Nov 21, 2016

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• The One remains, the many change and pass;
  Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
  Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
  Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
  Until Death tramples it to fragments.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Change, Science

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 52

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• Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

  Saint Augustine

  Guilt, Tears

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• Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters.
  [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Water, Wickedness, Can Not

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• What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.

  Daniel Handler

  White, Feelings, Ink

  "Horesradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, April 24, 2007.

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• Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Wall, Ivy, Weather

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.470

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• We're living in world, stars and dust Between heaven 'n all that surrounds us We're travellers here, spirits passing through And the love we give, is all that will endure Just like a rose after the rain Something beautiful remains Tears will leave no stains Time will ease the pain For every life that fades Something beautiful remains

  Tina Turner

  Beautiful, Stars, Pain

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• there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Waiting, Moss

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.152, Canongate Books

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