there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting
I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain a human life forever: the deceit of hate on hearsay - hating an enemy one doesn't know.
Only the heart without a stain knows ease.
Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.
What is working stain, does not soil.
Dirt is dirt, and we've all got it no matter where we come from. I'm not sure Christ sees one kind of dirt as dirtier than another. One thing is for sure: His blood is able to bleach any stain left by any kind of dirt.
Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?
Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense, forgetful of her, and of his brother, and of God; while she dragged through the years, sullen and bitter, the stain of silence marking her, coming in the end to ridicule as a soured spinster who had been kissed once in her life and could not forget it.
Democrats are not angry about 911. Sad, maybe - sad that it didn't happen on Clinton's watch so his legacy would be more than a semen stain. But they're not angry.
I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.
A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.
I stole a shirt off Jacques (Kallis) and a pullover off Harry (Paul Harris) that still had his hamburger stain on the front left side of it.
Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
I don't really care if my clothes are wrinkled or there's a stain on my shirt. Going out on the road, your clothes are dirty.
Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.
red plastic rain her tears stain
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile. . . a stain upon the silence.
Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience