Stains Quotes

• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Friendship, Patience, Truth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  People, World, Catchy

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• The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Real, Heart, Water

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• Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

  Gayle Forman

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.103, Penguin

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• Only the heart without a stain knows ease.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Ease, Knows

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• No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

  Sophocles

  Noble, Speech

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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

  Love, Dust, Hem

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.162, New World Library

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• Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  White, Doubt, Clean

  "Antonio Tabucchi: A Committed Doubter". Interview with Asbel Lopez, UNESCO Courier, November 1999.

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• A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.

  Anne Carson

  Tea, Pages, Attractive

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• It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wall, Fire, Clouds

  Quoted in Irma A Richter (ed) Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1977).

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• Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.

  Johnny Cash

  Feelings, Disappear, Stills

  Song: Hurt So Bad, Album: American IV: The Man Comes Around, 2002

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• God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Pain, Tribulation

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• We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way it goes, better to be dusty than polished, like some store window mannequin, why don't you touch me where i'm rusty, let me stain your hands

  Ani DiFranco

  Character, Hands, Years

  Song: Imperfectly Complete Album

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• Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
  Stains the white radiance of eternity.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 52

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• Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Wall, Ivy, Weather

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.470

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• There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life ...for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious thing we call 'influence' ...yet everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.

  J.B. Miller

  Leadership, Hurt, Mysterious Things

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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

  Men, Hands, Fellow Man

  A. B. Simpson (2009). “Wholly Sanctified: Living a Life Empowered by the Holy Spirit”, p.46, Moody Publishers

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• Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

  Saint Augustine

  Guilt, Tears

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• To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.

  Sri Chinmoy

  May, Causes, Individual

  "Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants". Poetry series by Sri Chinmoy (#14805, Part 37), 1983.

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• You worthless sonofabitch. You should never have been anything more than a cum stain! (Stryker)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Should, Has Beens, Worthless

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.747, Macmillan

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• Love is like grass. If you fall on it, it may leave a stain and some temporary pain. But you'll get over the pain, it will eventually stop hurting. Now maybe the stain ruined your favourite pair of jeans, or maybe it was nothing special that was ruined, but either way the stain remains there. And with time, it will begin to fade, but it will always be there, a permanent reminder that you, too, once fell.

  John Mayer

  Hurt, Pain, Fall

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• The woman who wrote the movie [Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains], her name is Nancy Dowd. She's a wonderful writer. She wrote Coming Home. And when I read the script, at that time, I thought, "This movie is going to do for girls what Breaking Away did for boys." I thought it was going to be huge. It was a great script.

  Brent Spiner

  Girl, Home, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It’s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark.

  Philip Roth

  Errors, Grace, Abuse

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Nov 21, 2016

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• there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Waiting, Moss

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.152, Canongate Books

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• The One remains, the many change and pass;
  Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
  Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
  Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
  Until Death tramples it to fragments.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Change, Science

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 52

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