Assuage Quotes
28 quotes by 27 authors
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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
— Sydney J. Harris
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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage…
— Albert Camus
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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the…
— Victor Hugo
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The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.
— Armond White
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
— Vikram Chatwal
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Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for…
— Calvin Trillin
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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
— Arthur Erickson
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Hello, my name is Noam and I have the answer to all your problems. It's all the fault of the evil Americans, the bad conservative…
— John Ringo
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Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry…
— Samuel West
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Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only…
— Gerhard Richter
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Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference…
— James Madison
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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with…
— Alain de Botton
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When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I…
— Clayton Christensen
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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval…
— Martin Filler
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This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy; they need justice.
— Isabel Allende
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Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when…
— Muriel Barbery
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They say that “Time assuages†- Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test…
— Emily Dickinson
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Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?"…
— Joseph Heller
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