Unworthy Quotes
259 quotes by 226 authors
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best…
— Martin Van Buren
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I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The…
— Maya Angelou
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I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe…
— Coretta Scott King
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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History…
— Felix Frankfurter
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Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.
— Thomas Jefferson
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...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the…
— Noah Webster
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What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the…
— Michael Faraday
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Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.
— George Carlin
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It was unworthy of our military sources that they were the first to weaken.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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It is indeed remarkable that the nature of our dealings with our fellowmen will determine, in large measure, our status in the kingdom of heaven....We…
— Mark E. Petersen
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And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a…
— Charles Nicolle
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The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man…
— John Dewey
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We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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We prepare the ground for our prayer when we shed something which is not Christ's, which is unworthy of him, and only the prayer of…
— Anthony of Sourozh
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We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or…
— John Keats
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Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.
— Dwight L. Moody
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It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on…
— Adolf Hitler
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We cannot talk with [animals] as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels. They should, however,…
— Rebecca Hall
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