Tainted Quotes

• There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Odor, Corruption, Goodness

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

  Louis Pasteur

  Barren, Skepticism, Skeptic

  The Louisville & Nashville Employes' Magazine, Volume 20, p. 28, 1944.

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• It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Age, World

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• The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Evil, Interesting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

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• There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Ifs

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• His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Money, Mines

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• 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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Knowledge, Drug, Decay

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.339, Delphi Classics

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• Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

  Georges Bataille

  Happiness, Poison, Literature

  Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape

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• To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.

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• 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.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Honesty, Opportunity

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• The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

  Newt Gingrich

  Ideas, Political, Politics

  "Master of DISASTER". David Beers, Mother Jones Magazine, Volume 14, No. 8, October 1989.

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• I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.

  David Boreanaz

  Wife, Faithful, Infidelity

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Kindness, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Dramatic and Poetic”, p.287

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• 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.

  Alice Hamilton

  Silence, Textbooks, Magazines

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.93, Read Books Ltd

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• It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Cheating, Honesty

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 03, 2016

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• Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, May, Beats

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• 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.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Winning, Race

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• I run to see who has the most guts.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Sports, Running, Track

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• A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Running, Art

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• 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.

  Nujood Ali

  Dream, Memories, Divorce

  Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui (2010). “I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced”, p.129, Broadway Books

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• The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Wind, Stupidity

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• The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

  Sylvia Plath

  Regret, Past, Feminism

  "Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956".

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• We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish.
  Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.

  Talib Kweli

  Pain, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Love Language, Album: Reflection Eternal

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• I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it.

  Drew Barrymore

  Hate, Glasses, Needs

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• Know DEEPLY who you are in Christ or everything else will be tainted.

  Floyd McClung

  Christ, Knows, Who You Are

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