Stained Quotes

156 Stained quotes by 144 unique authors

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works. — Charles Spurgeon
You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings! — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old… — Tom Waits
For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world. — Marc Chagall
We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who… — Yitzhak Rabin
I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my… — Fernando Pessoa
You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be… — Leonardo da Vinci
So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the… — George Will
Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at… — Rabindranath Tagore
PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated… — Ambrose Bierce
Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass. — John Fowles
Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government… — Richard Mentor Johnson
Imagine all the people, living life in peace. Well, that's hard to do when you're on this blood stained street. — Christine Lavin
Love isn't over when the sheets are stained. — Ani DiFranco
God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed. — Johnny Cash
Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded… — John Keats
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. — Claudius Claudianus
Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness. — Frederick Lenz
Let's talk about how to fill out your 1984 tax return. Here's an often overlooked accounting technique that can save you thousands of dollars: For… — Dave Barry
Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever… — Winston Churchill
I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are… — Nathan Fillion
I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime.… — Vanessa Hudgens
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of… — Anne Lamott
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders… — Pierre Loti

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