Assuage Quotes

28 quotes by 27 authors

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
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
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
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
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
There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul. — Vikram Chatwal
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
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? — Arthur Erickson
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
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
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
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
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
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
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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
Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when… — Muriel Barbery
They say that â€œTime assuagesâ€ - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test… — Emily Dickinson
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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