“We still don't know really who they are or what they've done. And that, I think, is a tremendous stain on this nation's credibility.”
Barbara Olshansky
“And is it true? And is it true, / This most tremendous tale of all, / Seen in a stained-glass window's hue, / A Baby in an ox's stall?”
John Betjeman
“It's a stain, it's a blot, it's unpleasant. I don't think it's going to have any long-term impact on the ongoing Israeli-American relationship.”
Joseph Alpher
“It left a stain on the psyche of black Pittsburgh. You can never drive on Route 51 and not think of it.”
Tim Stevens
“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain”
C.S. Lewis
“Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.All men make faults.”
William Shakespeare
“'Theocracy' has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained tyranny”
William Archer