Tarnishing Quotes

#1. To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.

Ellen Potter

#3. Therefore the master of war causes the enemy's forces to yield, but without fighting ; he captures his fortress, but without besieging it ; and without lengthy fighting takes the enemy's kingdom. Without tarnishing his weapons he gains the complete advantage. This is the assault by stratagem.

Sun Tzu

#4. There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

Neil Gaiman

#5. For what good is freedom of expression if you lack the means to express yourself?

Roy Peter Clark

#6. There's no way to recover after tarnishing an undefeated record.

Ronda Rousey

#7. But there was something so admirable about her innocence that he would not insult her by tarnishing it.

Eve Edwards

#8. Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.

Saul Bellow

#9. You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

Russell Baker

#10. The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.

Ariana Franklin