I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary… — C. P. Scott Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Didn’t your mom teach you to not creep up on a girl in a hearse?” I snapped even though I knew my… — HeyLoQueeKayy Copy Share Image
The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals.… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible. — David Boreanaz Copy Share Image
The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes,"… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Internet and all its lures are much, much harder than anything I've ever encountered. If you're writing on a computer, the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted. — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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