Cleansing Quotes
123 quotes by 113 authors
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Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have…
— Terry Pratchett
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs…
— William Shakespeare
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...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand,…
— Albert Camus
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So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the…
— Italo Calvino
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He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
— Lois Lowry
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The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up and condemns us,…
— John Piper
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I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.†(p.531)
— Storm Constantine
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She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.
— Arundhati Roy
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As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to…
— Christopher Hitchens
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There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation.
— Deepak Chopra
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Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over…
— Lance Armstrong
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I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because…
— Mohsin Hamid
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It would be like a cleansing diet. The problem was, the only diet I'd ever been on backfired. Once I tried to go an entire…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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I still don't know if things fit together, or if everything will be all right in the end. But I believe that something means something.…
— Erlend Loe
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There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.
— David Rakoff
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Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me that I am…
— Paulo Coelho
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History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All…
— Jodi Picoult
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I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years,…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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