Stains Quotes - Page 7

• For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony. To them, I suppose, the artistic skill of God is displeasing!

  Tertullian

  Eye, Skills, Skins

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• The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels.

  Anthony of Padua

  Mother, Angel, Saint

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• I was born with a stain. A mark. Like the mark of Cain. But is the mark of my father, my family. The mark of Borgia. I have tried to be other than I am. And I have failed. And If I have failed you in the process, I am truly sorry.

  Cesare Borgia

  Sorry, Father, Cain

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• The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!

  Robert Burns

  Wise, Learning, Flames

  Robert Burns (1859). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs and Correspondence”, p.132

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• When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the tow-ered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Mother, Rain, Thinking

  Robinson Jeffers (1965). “Selected poems”, Vintage

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• I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can

  Sylvia Plath

  Beer, Moon, Laughing

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• The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.

  Mike Ferguson

  Religious, Character, Democracy

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• Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease.
  [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Perfect, Ease

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• Oh say, can you see, it's really such a mess. Every inch of earth is a fighting nest. Giant pencial and lipstick tube shaped things, continue to rain and cause scream and pain, and the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Pain, Rain, Fighting

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• Pre-treating is a really important step for stain removal. It's best to treat stains right away, so blot fresh stains with a paper towel or a white rag.

  Clinton Kelly

  White, Important, Rags

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• Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Would Be, Human Nature

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• To remove blood stains from your conscience try frozen margaritas.

  Demetri Martin

  Blood, Trying, Frozen

  Twitter post from Jul 05, 2012

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• What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

  Plato

  Men, Vanity, What If

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• I stole a shirt off Jacques (Kallis) and a pullover off Harry (Paul Harris) that still had his hamburger stain on the front left side of it.

  Graeme Smith

  Hamburgers, Sides, Shirts

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• Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Autumn, Warrior

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• I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.

  Tony Parsons

  Swimming, Thinking, Guy

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• A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.

  Martha Stewart

  People, Buying, Tvs

  "My List: Martha Stewart". www.harpersbazaar.com. July 11, 2013.

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• I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of out time - the time of purple suspenders, and broken chair seats; it is made of white, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain. No sooner than born, it is already old, it seems as though I have known it for twenty years.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Purple, Oil, White

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

  Art Spiegelman

  Hands, Silence, Unnecessary

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• The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Fighting, Dust, Coal

  Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (1988). “Century of the Wind”, Pantheon Books

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• My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands, splashing water on his face. My mamma left us. My brother, too. And now my feckless, reckless uncle had as well. My pa stayed, though. My pa always stayed. I looked at him. And saw the sweat stains on his shirt. And his big, scarred hands. And his dirty, weary face. I remembered how, lying in my bed a few nights before, I had looked forward to showing him my uncle's money. To telling him I was leaving. And I was so ashamed.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Brother, Uncles, Father

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• My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, she’d left it in my care. And it needed a lot of it. Most importantly, it needed a new roof. There was a worrying stain on the ceiling of my bedroom that had started out roughly the shape of Rhode Island, but now looked more like North Carolina. Another few more days of rain and it was going to be Texas. And then it wouldn’t be anything at all because the battered old shingles were going to cave in on my head.

  Karen Chance

  Uncles, Rain, Rhode Island

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• It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Memories, Passion

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• Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Believe, Dirty, Thinking

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.561, Simon and Schuster

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• One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it. So most people agree that one of the worst stains on the reputation of FDR, who is widely considered a great president, is the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Likewise, Lincoln is judged harshly for the suspension of habeas corpus.

  David Greenberg

  War, People, President

  "Making Presidential History". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.

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