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Tag Name "Stains" (161)

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Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.
Lawrence Durrell
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There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.
Peter Ackroyd
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The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
A. B. Simpson
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As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.
Mara Liasson
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Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.
Nathaniel Culverwell
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Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.
Thomas Moore
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We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.
George William Russell
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You worthless sonofabitch. You should never have been anything more than a cum stain! (Stryker)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
Zane Grey
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Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.
William Shakespeare
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red plastic rain her tears stain
Kami Garcia
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Saint Augustine
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I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.
Katharine Whitehorn
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I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.
Heinrich Heine
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He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was already used to it. It was good. It somehow allowed them to have more.
Miranda July
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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
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If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.
R. Scott Bakker
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People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.
Sarah Hall
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For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them.
Charles Dickens
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Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
Thomas a Kempis
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For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud.
William Butler Yeats
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I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily.
Rachel Zoe
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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
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