Cleanliness Quotes - Page 4

• According to the World Health Organization, an average of Rs. 6500 per person was lost in India due to lack of cleanliness and hygiene. Swachh Bharat would make a significant impact on public health and in safeguarding income of the poor, ultimately contributing to the national economy.

  Narendra Modi

  Average, Hygiene, Organization

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• A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blood, Skins, Next

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• Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

  Jean Anouilh

  Order, Leaving, Way

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• What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?.

  Chanakya

  Heart, Austerity, Vices

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• What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Children, Home, Order

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• People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign, you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.

  David Brooks

  Two, People, Guy

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• I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament.

  Ogden Nash

  Tests, Baths, Chill

  'Samson Agonistes' (1942)

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• Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.

  Virgil Goode

  Country, Moving, Technology

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• Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.

  Jared Diamond

  Years, Acting, Twenties

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• I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Talent, Interest, Public Life

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• In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Reality, Men, Murder

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• There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Fun, Water

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• You cannot be fresh and feeling fine, wearing a washed vest under an unwashed shirt; or, an unwashed vest over a washed shirt. Both have to be clean, to provide a sense of tingling joy. So too outer and inner cleanliness is but the reflection of the inner achievement.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Reflection, Achievement, Joy

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• Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

  Terry Pratchett

  Past, Understanding, Erratic

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• If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.

  Alistair Begg

  Each Day, Practicals, Ifs

  Alistair Begg (2005). “Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith”, p.27, Moody Publishers

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• Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

  Chace Crawford

  Obsessive Compulsive, Placement, Obsessive

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• Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

  Chanakya

  Rivers, Ashes, Flow

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• Madrigal sniffed herself. "I'm almost sure I don't smell." "Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area.

  Laini Taylor

  Smell, Shining, Gray Area

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.203, Hachette UK

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• Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.

  Erma Bombeck

  Religious, Toasters, Next

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• I think a portfolio standard should go beyond wind, solar and geothermal energy to include renewable energy like hydropower and clean alternatives such as coal gasification, clean coal, nuclear energy and, finally, credits for achieving new levels of efficiency and conservation.

  Pete Domenici

  Thinking, Wind, Energy

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• I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.

  John Steinbeck

  Sitting Still, Celibacy, Restless

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• In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

  Joseph Joubert

  Elegance, Temperance

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• Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.

  Thomas Malthus

  People, House, Crowds

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1989). “An Essay on the Principle of Population”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• Work - get paid; don't work - don't get paid. Everybody is on commission, .. Try not coming to work for six weeks. Work gets paid; don't work, don't get paid. When they earn those dollars, and when you're 4, and you clean up your room, it really means mom cleaned up the room and you did two toys. When you're 14, it means you cleaned up your room. But still, we got the money caused by work, and then, we have teachable moments on how to handle the money they earn.

  Dave Ramsey

  Mom, Mean, Two

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• It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Home, Widows, Spiteful

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