Wipe Quotes - Page 12

• God has enough grace to solve every dilemma you face, wipe every tear you cry, and answer every question you ask.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, God, Christian

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Aug 01, 2016

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• People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources-all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry.

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Children, Humorous

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• A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

  William Hazlitt

  Lying, Character, Men

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.75

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• Dear friend,
  Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don't land on soft snow. It's usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you're tumbling underwater.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beach, Snowboarding, Land

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• TREE HOUSE A tree house, a free house, A secret you and me house, A high up in the leafy branches Cozy as can be house. A street house, a neat house, Be sure to wipe your feet house Is not my kind of house at all- Let's go live in a tree house.

  Shel Silverstein

  Feet, Tree, House

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• I do promise that you will survive this. Faith, my own heart is so scattered round the country now, I marvel that it has the strength each day to keep me standing. But it does,' she said, and drawing in a steady breath she pulled back just enough to raise a hand to wipe Sophia's tears. 'It does. And so will yours.' 'How can you be so sure?' 'Because it is a heart, and knows no better.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Country, Heart, Hands

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.675, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

  Eric Clapton

  Confusion, Found, Music Is

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you;?and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.

  Muhammad

  Evil, Giving, Secret

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• Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

  Isaac

  Heroic, Forget, Rescue

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• If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.

  Mem Fox

  Children, Educational, Reading

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• Baby Girl," I say. "I need you remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you?" She still crying steady, but the hiccups are gone. "To wipe my bottom good when I'm done?" "No, baby, the other one. About who you are.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Girl, Baby, Remembers Everything

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• The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

  Alain de Botton

  Glasses, Understanding, Hurtful

  Alain De Botton (1997). “How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel”, Pantheon

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• There's a tap on the door then. We all exchange looks, Tommy Falk's as uncertain as the rest of ours. No one moves, so I finally wipe my hands off on my pants, go to the door, and open it a crack. Sean stands on the other side, one hand in his trouser pocket, the other holding a loaf of bread. I wasn't prepared for it to be Sean, so my stomach does a neat little trick that feels like either hunger or escaping.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Escaping, Doors

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• You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Sweat, Looks

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.86, Harper Collins

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• God is always working to make His children aware of a dream that remains alive beneath the rubble of every shattered dream, a new dream that when realized will release a new song, sung with tears, till God wipes them away and we sing with nothing but joy in our hearts.

  Larry Crabb

  Dream, Song, Children

  Larry Crabb (2012). “Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy”, p.82, WaterBrook

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• If I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Death, Eye, Wish

  Song: If I Close My Eyes Forever

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• Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

  John Boyd Orr

  Revenge, War, Lust

  "Nobel Lectures in Peace" by Frederick W. Haberman, World Scientific, (p. 415), 1999.

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• People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

  Andy Partridge

  Feet, People, Welcome

  "Song: "Snowman" ("English Settlement")". February 12, 1982.

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• There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say, oh, let's build a fence and be done with it, wipe our hands, it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

  Rick Perry

  Reality, Hands, Ideas

  "Interview with Presidential Candidate Rick Perry". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 3, 2011.

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• These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.

  Kid Rock

  Running, Baby, Kids

  "Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. June 27, 2003.

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• Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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• Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Moving, Dew, World

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.17, tredition

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• Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Shadow, Literature

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• Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

  Melissa Bean

  Data, Numbers, Hands

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