Quotes About Stains

Death was bleach and it burned away the stains, leaving nothing but white.

very tall and very thin, dressed in a gray suit that had many dark stains on it. His face was unshaven, and rather than two eyebrows, like most human beings have, he had just one long one. His eyes were very, very shiny, which made him look both hungry and angry. "Hello, my children.

Tobacco put food on our tables, steeples on our churches, stains on our fingers, spots on our lungs, and contradictions in our hearts.

When the hunters, many of them retaining the foul odors and wretched stains of their gory work, were in town, they wanted whiskey and women. Good manners would only result in them having to wait longer for both.

Jeeves, I said, when I had washed off the stains of travel, tell me frankly all about it. Be as frank as Lady Bablockhythe.

photographers at the time often rubbed their fingers with solid lumps of cyanide to remove silver nitrate stains.

Unstrained, I sit and gaze, glare, survey, stare through barred windows encased in embroidered steel. Pearly frosted dust obstructs the channels of light, leaving only small pillars of fire, arranged in disordered fragments. The antiquated sallow walls are stained with crimson braids that wreathe and scuttle about the rimes and rifts.

Apparently some things, like Cheetos finger stains and the searing pain of grief, couldn't be fixed.

That's the worst part about the walking dead... the stains.

Because . . . fear is a terrible, insidious thing, Waldo. It taints and stains everything it touches. If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all.

My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.

Because deception requires both bold lies and lies of omission, it stains the soul, muddies the conscience, blurs the vision, and puts you at risk of headlong descent into greater darkness. As a boy, I could not have put

Dirt washes off more easily than blood

Rorschach knew Binet's work and was familiar with Binet's own inspiration—Leonardo da Vinci, who in his "Treatise on Painting" described throwing paint at a wall and looking at the stains for inspiration.

So you believe people can't change? That once you do a bad thing, you're a bad person? I don't know, I admit.But I do think that some stains never wash out.

Some stains never wash out.

We can employ bleach, for example, to strip electrons from molecules. Electrons are more than just the glue that holds molecules together — they are also responsible for color. By stripping molecules of electrons, or "oxidizing" them, we can therefore eliminate stains.

Dan keeps telling Snow White that Christmas is coming! How can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains?

Guilt is the most merciless disease of man. It stains all the other areas of living. It darkens all skies.

I felt like the most despicable woman in the world for allowing my mother to be a vagabond and not lifting a finger to rescue her. Other nights I cried from rage, from pure hatred, and I couldn't rid myself of it. Hatred is like blood, it's impossible to conceal and it stains everything.

Hatred is like blood, it's impossible to conceal and it stains everything.

I smoothed my grandmother's starched white damask cloth over the battered pine harvest table in the dining room, and with my fingertips, traced the tiny patches where she'd so painstakingly mended it. If I looked closely, and I did, I could see the faintest ghost outlines of stains from family dinners long ago.

One thing I know from living with Jack is that war, any war, stains a man deep, and nothing can get the stain out. They can wear clothes like a rancher or a banker, but the stains are under there, never far from the surface of their skin.

If I were a vampire, I think I'd only wear black or dark brown—to hide the stains.