Clean Quotes
1938 quotes by 1529 authors
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But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced,…
— Hermann Hesse
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But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place…
— Joan Didion
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It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.
— Kaye Gibbons
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Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.
— Larry Winget
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To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a…
— Betty Smith
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Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could…
— George Orwell
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On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early…
— Amy Sedaris
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And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of…
— Dr. Seuss
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It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.
— Raymond Chandler
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Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing…
— Carl Sandburg
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
— Raymond Chandler
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I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My…
— Haruki Murakami
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Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world…
— Arianna Huffington
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When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
— Charles Bukowski
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