Quotes About Stained

Let me say to those who practice the way: Seeking worthless things exhausts your mind. People have a spiritual essence, beyond words or description. When you call on it, it responds clearly, when it is hidden, you don't know where it is. Keep it well, don't let it be stained.

the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light;

It may be that actual tears have stained the tile floors or soaked into the carpets of such places. It may be that these tears can never be removed. And everywhere the odor of melancholy, that is the very odor of memory.

stained raincoats, I reckon." "And shitpaper stuck to their shoes.

He was travel stained, unkempt, and very tired, but his soul was at peace.

Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.

We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons.

Their bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and then in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland.

My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair.

His shirt is rumpled. His fingers, long and slender, are stained yellow at the tips from smoking. His mind is always on something else. My mind is busy, too, reading every cue and signal, keeping track of all the things that cannot be discussed, that must not be remembered, that have to be erased.

... the reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windows of churches, were stained by oppression and bloodshed.

Yet here surely was victor's justice, tinged with the sour smell of sanctimony, a reminder that honor and dishonor often traveled in trace across a battlefield, and that even a liberator could come home stained if not befouled.

and hot raw wood. There was a guy behind a counter, in worn blue overalls stained black with dirt. He was

She paused before the fallen rider. He stared up at her from within a grimacing, battle stained face. Hatred and fear battled for supremacy in his eyes. Sasha met his gaze directly with a stare of utter contempt. 'Where are your gods now?' she said.

Disease had taken hold of Marceline, never again to leave her; it had marked her, stained her. Henceforth she was a thing that had been spoiled.

The restaurant sits on a rock above the river and is very old and water stained in ways that would delight a painter and trouble a contractor.

river and is very old and water stained in ways that would delight a painter and trouble a contractor;

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

Imagine all the people, living life in peace. Well, that's hard to do when you're on this blood stained street.

Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.

Prosciutto should be thin and let light through like stained glass. Even I know that.

I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...

you were a jumble of broken bits of glass the sun caught and stained my soul with your colors....

I see you kneeling in church—stained only by colored windows