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  • Show business got really tainted for me.

  • If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.

    Lying   Believe   Heart  
    Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.103, Multnomah
  • The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

    Air   Cities   People  
  • You need a sanctuary. Somewhere where it doesn't feel like it's being tainted by everybody's opinions and other people's money. I think I'm kind of homesick right now.

    Thinking   People   Needs  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

    Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.64, Routledge
  • Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names … Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.

    Mean   Men   Opposites  
    "The Flame is Green" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 5), 1971.
  • I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.

    Children   Long   Firsts  
    "Criss Angel Creates Phenomenon!". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 14, 2007.
  • A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can’t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.

  • Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

    Criticism   Today   Size  
    "Fat is a prejudice issue" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.
  • The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

  • Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

    Margaret Sanger, Esther Katz (2007). “The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Birth control comes of age, 1928-1939”, Univ of Illinois Pr
  • Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes.

    Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells (2016). “The Pivot of Civilization”, p.134, Read Books Ltd
  • I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers like Philip Pullman. Somehow myths have returned as a serious subject. It used to be scorned...really scorned. It was part of a nursery tradition, and it was also rather tainted - but not in an immovable way - by the association with right-wing ideologies after the World Wars.

    War   Recovery   Thinking  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

    Funny   Money   Mines  
  • [Donald Trump] is going to be tainted by scandal. Congress hangs by just three Republican votes. If he loses three Republicans, you're going to see investigations, subpoenas.

    Three   Scandal   Vote  
    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste of death forever in his mouth. The Trinity must be tainted by it; there must be a certain stench at the right hand of God the Father. The horror must be real. Why would God wish that upon Himself? Why not leave death to mortals? Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? -- Love. That was his answer.

    Beautiful   Father   Real  
    Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

    Men   World   Suits  
    George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.53
  • All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is not kept moving the blood becomes tainted, its waste matter lodges in the skin, and the condition of the whole body deteriorates.

  • Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

    Way   May   Wealth  
    Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1823). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.167
  • If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth; Muffle your false love with some show of blindness; Let not my sister read it in your eye; Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator; Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty; Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger; Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted; Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint; Be secret-false.

    Sweet   Kindness   Eye  
    William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Dramatic and Poetic”, p.287
  • To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

    "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.
  • I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

    Dark   Decision   Age  
  • The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of God is infected by the hand of man, that is, written down, it is tainted.

    Men   Hands   Half  
    Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.214, Chronicle Books
  • What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

    Men   Thinking   Air  
    Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.224, Pluto Press
  • Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that it must adapt itself to the varying necessities of the times and the varying dispositions of souls, since it is not contained in an unchangeable revelation, but is, by its very nature, meant to accommodate itself to the life of man.

    Men   Errors   Soul  
  • Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

    1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.
  • Know DEEPLY who you are in Christ or everything else will be tainted.

    Christ   Knows   Tainted  
  • I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!

    Jonathan Raban (1981). “Old Glory, an American Voyage”, Simon & Schuster
  • The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

    Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.212, Ballantine Books
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