Stains Quotes - Page 12

• Great Spirit-I want no blood upon my land to stain the grass. I want it all clear and pure, and I wish it so, that all who go through among my people may find it peaceful when they come, and leave peacefully when they go.

  Ten Bears

  Blood, Land, Justice

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• I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds what its jaws can encompass and what the light will stain.

  Lee Friedlander

  Wall, Silly, Simple

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• I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.

  Margaret Atwood

  Growing Up, Stupid, Imperfection

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Sep 01, 2014

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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

  People, Tears, Jugs

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• Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

  Robert Graves

  Love, Vision, Reason

  Robert Graves (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.159, Faber & Faber

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• Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

  Francis of Assisi

  Humility, Men, Giving

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• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Quiet, Language

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• Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

  Samuel Beckett

  Writing, Silence, Matter

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• There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why I am hunting in these desiccated streets. The smoke hides the sky's variety, stains consciousness, covers the holocaust with something safe and insubstantial. It protects from greater flame. It indicates fire, but obscures the source. This is not a useful city. Very little here approaches any eidolon of the beautiful.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Beautiful, Hunting, Fire

  "Dhalgren". Book by Samuel R. Delany, January, 1975.

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• Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange belief that a tree has nothing to say until it is murdered, its flesh pulped, and then (human) people stain this flesh with words. I would take children outside and put them face to face with chipmunks, dragonflies, tadpoles, hummingbirds, stones, rivers, trees, crawdads. That said, if you're going to force me to give them a book, it would be The Wind In The Willows, which I hope would remind them to go outside.

  Derrick Jensen

  Children, Book, Wind

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• Recognize the good in others, not their stains.

  Richard G. Scott

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• Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

  Terry Goodkind

  Honesty, Liars, Crowns

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.557, Head of Zeus

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• Dirt is dirt, and we've all got it no matter where we come from. I'm not sure Christ sees one kind of dirt as dirtier than another. One thing is for sure: His blood is able to bleach any stain left by any kind of dirt.

  Beth Moore

  Blood, Where We Come, Bleach

  Beth Moore (2014). “Portraits of Devotion”, p.207, B&H Publishing Group

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