Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other.

Linda Patterson

We want to see justice served for what was done.

Chris Christie

She supported a deal that didn't even require this murderous regime to return a cop killer, JoAnne Chesimard, to face justice. See I know about this personally.

Chris Christie

Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, I'm going to present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Chinua Achebe

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Edward Gibbon

But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.

Edward Gibbon

A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice were often sacrificed to the prejudices of virtue, the bias of laudable affection, and the grosser seductions of interest or resentment.

Alan Hovhaness

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

Benicio Del Toro

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

Athol Fugard

My essential identity is that of a writer.

Jeff Neubauer

We are a team looking for our identity right now.

Carlos Ghosn

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

Alan Rudolph

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

Bill Ayers

When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.

Bernard Malamud

You see in others who you are.

Camille Paglia

Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

Beth Moore

The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.

Daniel Woodrell

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

Andy Warhol

That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits.

Robert Herrick

Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.

Rumi

Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.

Lucretius

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

Erma Bombeck

If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

Ezra Taft Benson

Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.

Jeff Conaway

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when youre depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.