The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Keeping this facility [Guantanamo prison] open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
You can be addicted to White Supremacy and all of the benefits, you can be addicted to male privilege and all of… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Dirt is dirt, and we've all got it no matter where we come from. I'm not sure Christ sees one kind of… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I wear this crown of thorns Upon my liar's chair Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair Beneath the stains of time… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Such is the grace and power of baptism; not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better! — Adriano Directo Emperado Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Great Spirit-I want no blood upon my land to stain the grass. I want it all clear and pure, and I wish… — Ten Bears Copy Share Image
I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we… — William James Copy Share Image
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image