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But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomaly!) that fitful stain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.

Edgar Allan Poe

Of course. Is that a stain on the rug? I'll get it. It's my life, and that's my purpose, that stain. Imagine.

Brian Nichols

Stain it. You don't want to paint wood ? it's going to peel.

Tina Herbert

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Samuel Beckett

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beecher

These have been called wonder chemicals. They have now evolved into staple stain and grease-proof coatings for a broad array of everyday consumer products, including microwave popcorn bags, carpets and blue jeans.

Jane Houlihan

We gutted it and started fresh. We did all our own staining and painting.

Dennis Chandler

The stain of racial discrimination seems to have found its way onto the White House grounds. Nothing has been done, the (Secret) Service has buried its head in the sand, has refused to talk, has denied the existence of any discrimination.

John Relman

We need to replace about 13 windows before we can bring someone in to power-wash and re-stain the exterior.

Kate Wickstrom

They're more expensive, but they last forever, ... and you can grain and stain them to look just like wood.

Roger Johnson

It left a stain on the psyche of black Pittsburgh. You can never drive on Route 51 and not think of it.

Tim Stevens

Love is a universal migraine / A bright stain on the vision / Blotting out reason.

Robert Graves

You place it over the stain, press a button and walk away.

Nate Benforado

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

Jane Fonda

Each word seemed to me an unnecessary stain on silence of nothingness.

Samuel Beckett

This certainly removes some of the stain. They have carried into the future all the ghosts of the Black Sox and this whole Second City thing. They have been in the shadow of all of that forever.

David Fletcher

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

William Bridges

You can get pretty much any piece in any wood, in any stain.

John Mancini

The dye-stained money was found on the sidewalk, so there is a chance the person who robbed this bank may have red dye stain on her clothing.

Paul Mccabe

It's better to have a good stain protection on nylon. It tends to hold in dirt.

Randy Hall

He's still doing better than he had during most of his career. He's not necessarily a beloved superstar that advertisers want to attach their ride to. The BALCO stain certainly affected it. But a lot of the lack of interest in Barry as a corporate spokesman has to do with his 20 years antagonizing media and fans.

Kurt Badenhausen

I have no intention of returning to the commission until it is cleansed of the stain and stench of bigotry caused by Sister Claudette's continued presence.

Richard Hirschhaut

Even though common sense tells us that a piece of evidence doesn't need to be examined, we'll usually examine it anyway. If we find clothing with a rust stain on it, we need to look to see if it might be blood. A prudent prosecutor is not going to take the chance.

Dennis Godfrey