Clean Quotes
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It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.
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I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.
joseph ("joe") biden— Speaking of Presidential candidate Barack Obama"Biden Unbound: Lays Into Clinton, Obama, Edwards". The New York Observer. February 1, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
Down and back at day dawn, Tramp from lake to lake, Washing brain and heart clean Every step we take. Leave to Robert Browning Beggars, fleas, and vines; Leave to mournful Ruskin Popish Apennines, Dirty stones of Venice, And his gas lamps seven, We've the stones of Snowdon And the lamps of heaven.
Charles Kingsley— Charles Kingsley, Letters and Memories, Aug., 1856. (Edited by Mrs. Kingsley).
The first advice I have to give the party is that it should clean its slate.
Archibald Primrose— 5th Earl of Rosebery , speech at Chesterfield (December 16, 1901).
They were careless people,Tom and Daisythey smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
— 1925 The Great Gatsby, ch.9.
We draw the sword with a clean conscience and with clean hands.
Kaiser Wilhelm II— 1914 Address from the throne, Berlin, 4 Aug.
For 60 years Gross Domestic Product, or GDP for short, has been the yardstick by which the world has measured and understood economic and social progress. However, it has failed to capture some of the factors that make a difference in people’s lives and contribute to their happiness, such as security, leisure,income distribution and a clean environment–including the kinds of factors which growth itself needs to be sustainable.
— Joseph Stiglitz, in Beyond GDP: Measuring the impact of Operational Programmes in relation to economic growth and sustainable development at a local/regional level., QeC-ERAN
O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.
— Masefield, Everlasting Mercy, last Stanza.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
maya angelou
You need your family in this business. It's one of the most important things to keep you grounded. You come home and your mom's like, "clean the kitty's litter box." It's not like it's all about me.
kirsten dunst— Interview in The Guardian (14 October 2000)
The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.
Ivor Gurney— 1922 'The Songs I Had'.
So we think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America, Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.
Norman Kingsley Mailer— 1973 Marilyn.
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought. The words, if the book be eloquent, should run thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, and the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand coloured pictures to the eye.
Robert Louis Stevenson— A Gossip on Romance, printed in Longman's Magazine (November 1882).
The extraordinary patience of things! This beautiful place defaced with a crop of suburban houses How beautiful when we first beheld it, Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs; No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing...
robinson jeffers— "Carmel Point"
Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.
George H. W. Bush— George H. W. Bush, from "Remarks Announcing Proposed Legislation to Amend the Clean Air Act", June 12, 1989[ ]
It is all too rare today to hear the clear, clean ring of a really original insult.
Jim Richard carrigan— 1987 In Time, 28 Aug.
Iwasneat, clean, shaved and sober, and Ididn'tcare who knew it.
Raymond Chandler— 1939 Philip Marlowe. The Big Sleep, ch.1.
Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well I did behave.
— 1896 A Shropshire Lad, no.18.
Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.
jacob m. appel— Arborophilia (2005)
Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind:He took her in his arms and there and thenLike the clean beasts, embracing from behind,Began in joy to found the breed of men.
a. d. hope— Imperial Adam (l. 25-28)
Oh, when I was in love with youThen I was clean and brave,And miles around the wonder grewHow well did I behave.And now the fancy passes byAnd nothing will remain,And miles around they'll say that IAm quite myself again.
a. e. housman— No. 18.
Philosophy ... finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.
georges bataille— p. 9 (L’Expérience Intérieure (1943))
Thus it comes about that the endeavour of primitive people to make a clean sweep of all their troubles generally takes the form of a grand hunting out and expulsion of devils and ghosts. They think that if they can only shake off these their accursed tormentors, they will make a fresh start in life, happy and innocent; the tales of Eden and the old poetic golden age will come true again.
james frazer— Chapter 56, The Public Expulsion of Evils
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.
george orwell— "No, Not One," The Adelphi (October 1941), p. 7-8
Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
Henry Vaughan— Henry Vaughan, The Seed Growing Secretly
Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto V, Stanza 50.
No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
felix frankfurter— Felix Frankfurter, The Commerce Clause (1937), p. 12.
We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.
— Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393), Ch. 40
I've frisked him. He's clean. [Sollozzo: Don't take too long ] I've frisked thousands of young punks.
— Who: Captain McCluskey
— Note: Said to Sollozzo, when Michael asks to go to the bathroom. After Sollozzo tells him not to take too long, McCluskey says the second part. Michael then returns with a gun and shoots him twice.
