Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime. — Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the… — Barbara Olson Copy Share Image
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if… — Martial Copy Share Image
Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Pritkin muttered something that sounded fairly vicious. “My clothes are warded! Even if I wished to accede to your demand, it would… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
The character of the tribunes was, in every respect, different from that of the consuls. The appearance of the former was modest… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
“So Jane was getting married. Well, more power to her. In fact, let me tighten those straps. Any word from the governor… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
There's a pardon for every sinner on the topside of the earth, but you have to call for it by faith before… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle… — William Morris Copy Share Image
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The turkey that President Obama will pardon this Thanksgiving is from California. The turkey said, "I don't need a pardon. I need… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power… — Alberto Fujimori Copy Share Image
I know there's a creative side to artists to - pardon me - there's a creative side to scientists already, but there… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Pardon the way that I stare, there's nothing else to compare. The sight of you leaves me weak, there are no words… — Frankie Valli Copy Share Image
Morning, sunshine." Vlad blinked at her. "Morning, sulfuric acid." "Pardon me?" "Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'? — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I'll join you, sir. You'll need help finding your way about the estate."His lips tightened into a disapproving line. "Begging your pardon,… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
However , it’s over, and I’ll take no revenge on his folly – I can afford to suffer anything, hereafter! Should the… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I… — Fidelis of Sigmaringen Copy Share Image
At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others feelings and courteous in his behavior. He… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
An Albanian’s house is the dwelling of God and the guest.’ Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
He draws us to Himself by grace, by example, by power, by lovingness, by beauty, by pardon, and above all by the… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
I'd done all my research and seen that Booker and Gadson had worked with giant folks and little peanuts, too. That just… — Kelly Hogan Copy Share Image
I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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