Tainted Quotes

Tainted Quote of the day

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

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.

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.

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

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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.

I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.

Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

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

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.

Know DEEPLY who you are in Christ or everything else will be tainted.

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.

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.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion

Nobody likes tainted victories.

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.

I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.

We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.

Show business got really tainted for me.

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

[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.

They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle, to see it as it is, rather than tainted by my own previous thoughts.

Somehow when you see a politician kiss a baby, shake a hand -- kiss anything -- it is tainted.

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

Far beneath the tainted foamThat frets above our peaceful home,We dream in joy and wake in loveNor know the rage that yells above.

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

I'm always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I'm tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it.

a fall from great innocence hurts the most to knowthat you are nowtainted

I was tainted. With her blood. Their blood. And the disease of my despair. There was no cleansing something so tainted. This was who I was now.This was War.

If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.