Quotes About Dirtiness

#1. If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

George Orwell

#2. A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.

Saint Augustine

#3. Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. The

Maya Angelou

#4. He ate off dirty plates and was unfazed. His pillowcase was soiled and stank, but he never thought of changing it. Hamid thought long and hard, but he couldn't understand him. He often asked, 'Babuji, why aren't you revolted by dirtiness?

Saadat Hasan Manto

#5. A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

Pete Gill

#6. What pudor pejorocracy affronts
how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot
what breeds where dirtiness is law
what crawls
below

Charles Olson

#7. So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me
the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved.

Jessica Sorensen

#8. Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.

James Stephens

#9. Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it ... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness.

George Orwell

#10. Not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery.

Maya Angelou

#11. Really I don't know anything other than Jersey. I like the dirtiness of it. Now I'm getting to see the world, and it's great, but it's not better than Jersey.

Frank Iero

#12. I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

Frances Farmer

#13. Soap is another article in great demand
the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.

George Washington

#14. In Egypt, there is a saying: When good fortune looks down upon us, it does so in threes, one for each part of the Eye of Horus. His upper lid, his lower lid and the eye itself.

Michelle Moran

#15. Bring Your Child to Work Day
that's how we got George W. Bush.

David Letterman

#16. Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#17. Loneliness is a state when you have not yet grown to love yourself enough.

Robert Black

#18. A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.

Daniel H. Pink

#19. Ascension joy - inwardly we must become very quiet to hear the soft sound of this phrase at all. Joy lives in its quietness and incomprehensibility. This joy is in fact incomprehensible, for the comprehensible never makes for joy.1 Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#20. Many of us are more capable than some of us ... but none of us is as capable as all of us!

Tom Wilson

#21. Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth.

Lanza Del Vasto

#22. I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

Bill Maher

#23. The Paddock was one of those medium-sized houses with a goodish bit of very tidy garden and a carefully rolled gravel drive curving past a shrubbery that looked as if it had just come back from the dry cleaner - the sort of house you take one look at and say to yourself, Somebody's aunt lives there.

P.G. Wodehouse