It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.
If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth; Muffle your false love with some show of blindness; Let not my sister read it in your eye; Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator; Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty; Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger; Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted; Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint; Be secret-false.
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
I run to see who has the most guts.
I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
My divorce has changed my life. I don’t cry anymore. My bad dreams are starting to go away. I feel stronger, as if all these ordeals have toughened me. When I go out in the street, sometimes women in the neighborhood call to me, congratulating me and shouting ‘Mabrouk!’ – a word once tainted by evil memories, but which I know like to hear again. And shouted by women I don’t even know! I blush, but deep down I’m so proud.
Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.
It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.
Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.
The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret.
A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can’t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.
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