"The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems……" — Giles Foden
"The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened."
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Giles Foden
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15 Quotes by Giles Foden
Giles Foden has 15 quotes on this site.
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My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit…
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From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as…
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My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.
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To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been…
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Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph…
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I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell…
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In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
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Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just…
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Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.
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I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio…
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Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.
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Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
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More Forgiveness Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is…
— Saint Augustine
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
— Jane Austen
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
— Francis Bacon
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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
— Francis Bacon
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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
— Alan Ball
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
— Honore de Balzac
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to…
— Bernard Baruch
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I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the…
— Mario Batali
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