Quotes About Being Defiled

#1. The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.

Diogenes

#2. It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled

Achmat Dangor

#3. Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living.

Bell Hooks

#4. I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.

Alice Munro

#5. There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.

Michelle Sagara West

#6. The second gift is Beauty. May your deeds reflect its depth.

Charlene Costanzo

#7. Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#8. I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.

Shakira

#9. Philip thought of the countless millions to whom life is no more than unending labour, neither beautiful nor ugly, but just to be accepted in the same spirit as one accepts the changes of the seasons.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life.

Helen Macdonald

#11. I love you, and I want to be
with you because you make my life better." He pushed her hair behind her ear. "You asked me once
what I see when I look into my future." He slid his palm down her shoulder and took her hand. "I see
you," he said and kissed her knuckles.

Rachel Gibson

#12. I watch a white landscape that turns pale green, dark green, yellow and red, brown under bare branches, until snow falls again.

Donald Hall

#13. Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

#14. It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.

Joe Gold

#15. When the cold winds come and find you
Blowing down from the top of the high rise
I'll come and take you back down to Soho
Away from all those madmen's eyes

Shane MacGowan

#16. I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a few hours, I feel out of touch.

Leelee Sobieski

#17. Let twelve angels come into being to rule over chaos and the underworld. And look, from the cloud there appeared an angel whose face flashed with fire and whose appearance was defiled with blood. His name was Nebro, which means in translation 'rebel'; others call him Yaldabaoth.

Rodolphe Kasser