#blot

These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#been #blot #country #defense #fact

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#attention #blots #books #covered #draws

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#because #becomes #blot #ink #into

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#comes #give #give me #good #i

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#blot #bombs #civilization #few #few people

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements. ↗

— John Marshall Harlan

#body #constitution #court #every #general

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#blue #earth #eye #feel #felt

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#blotted #characters #loneliness #mind #never

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. ↗

— George Eliot

#close #glory #i #know #leave

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting out of God's image in us. ↗

— Heinrich Bullinger

#else #god #image #nature #nothing