Defiles Quotes

#1. Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Robert South

#2. To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of life; mutually sustaining, when it is rugged with obstructions, and mutually rejoicing, when rich broad plains and sunny slopes make journeying delight.

George Henry Lewes

#3. With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people.

Adolf Hitler

#4. Transgression of the law of God, not the neglect of external, man-made ceremonies, that defiles a man.

Ellen G. White

#5. Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.

Olive Schreiner

#6. War among men defiles this world.

T. S. Eliot

#7. A pessimist is a liar, unless he destroys himself, and no less of a hypocrite than a priest who defiles the holy.

Mark Samuels

#8. Utterances of cursed language defiles the hearts and souls of man and many.

T.F. Hodge

#9. Unless you know the mountains and the forests, the defiles and impasses, the lay of the marshes and swamps, you cannot maneuver with an armed force. Unless you use local guides, you cannot get the advantages of the land.

Sun Tzu

#10. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Olive Schreiner

#11. Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices ... It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth ...

Peter Damian

#12. Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as male and female.

Andrew Comiskey

#13. Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.

Gautama Buddha

#14. That is her secret. A poor and precious secret that not even the executioners, the decrees, the occupying authorities, the Depot, the barracks, the camps, History, time-everything that defiles and destroys you-have been able to take away from her.

Patrick Modiano

#15. 14Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. "All of you listen," he said, "and try to understand. 15It's not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart.*

Anonymous

#16. Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

Plautus

#17. What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

William Golding

#18. In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

August Strindberg

#19. Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it ... Don't swear. Don't profane. Avoid so-called dirty jokes. Stay away from conversation that is sprinkled with foul and filthy words. You will be happier if you do so, and your example will give strength to others.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#21. Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it's not how well you know the book, it's how well you're in alignment with the author.

Steve Maraboli

#22. A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.

David Harsanyi

#23. Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship; without friendship it's just lust.

Donna Lynn Hope

#24. You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones.

Mac O'Grady

#25. And so I sat in the centre of this old city that I loved, which itself sat at the bottom of a tiny island. I was surrounded by people I loved, and I felt happy and miserable at the same time. I thought of what a mess everything had been, but that it wouldn't always be this way.

Hanif Kureishi

#26. Your hair is a tangled mess,he said, thinking he liked it that way, like a lion's mane.

Kim Harrison

#27. People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

Timothy Ferriss

#28. Only the young can be alone freely. The time is shorter now for company, And sitting by a lamp more often brings Not peace, but other things.

Philip Larkin

#29. My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.

David Spade

#30. Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Mignon McLaughlin

#31. The business of Hollywood, if you don't have other things going on, it will eat you up and spit you out ... If you take what those people and that social structure think of you - if you let it govern your life - you might as well just kill yourself.

Morgan Fairchild

#32. I'd rather go naked than wear fur.

Christy Turlington