Top 154 Tainted Quotes & Sayings

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.

Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.

Tainted numbers, I believe, do not belong in the Hall of Fame.

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.

Singing makes me so happy and feeds my soul so much that I almost wouldn't want it to get tainted and become this work thing.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle, to see it as it is, rather than tainted by my own previous thoughts.

I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.

You need a sanctuary. Somewhere where it doesn't feel like it's being tainted by everybody's opinions and other people's money. I think I'm kind of homesick right now.

Do we want someone as secretary of state that is somehow tainted in this Benghazi issue?

I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.

The debate on climate change has been tainted by its excessive concern with individual and national interests, short-termism, and lack of solidarity in face of global threats.

I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.

Know DEEPLY who you are in Christ or everything else will be tainted.

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.

As mothers, women are often the first to know when the food they feed their children is tainted with pollutants or impurities, because they can see it in the tears of their children and hear it in their babies' cries.

I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted.

You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.

Nobody likes tainted victories.

Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

Far beneath the tainted foamThat frets above our peaceful home,We dream in joy and wake in loveNor know the rage that yells above.

Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

We don't realize how much racism has tainted our self-image as human beings.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

You're morally tainted if you don't treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

I still have a 15¢ sticker on the frame of my law degree. It's tainted, so I just leave it in the basement.

I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.

Unions and their supporters in Congress claim that when employees vote on whether to unionize, the elections are tainted by employer intimidation. They're wrong.

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

I don't involve personal biases in my handicapping or wagering. I bet against the Cubs in the 2016 World Series, which tainted the victory a little. It was still incredible to watch.

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

I sort of fell in love with the idea that we all love things that we're not supposed to, and that, often, that love is also 'tainted.' I wrapped it in sort of a graphic novel theme, and out of that came 'Tainted Love.'

I'd tell you whose brand was tainted is Donald Trump. I mean, this guy was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is a champion of working people.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

Somehow when you see a politician kiss a baby, shake a hand -- kiss anything -- it is tainted.

The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of God is infected by the hand of man, that is, written down, it is tainted.

The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.

What kind of signal is Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving by closeting himself with tainted politicians and financial fraud-accused of YSR Congress undergoing trial?

I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!

Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

We invented a history of Poland as a tolerant, open country, a country that has not been tainted by any atrocities committed against its minorities.

You can't eat tomatoes because they're tainted with deadly salmonella. First there was tainted lettuce. Now, tainted tomatoes. Who would have thought that the healthiest part of a B.L.T. would be the bacon?

Show business got really tainted for me.

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.