Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.

Diana Gabaldon

I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon as ye can sit down again." "As for my pleasure..." His lip twitched. "I said I would have to punish you. I did not say I wasna going to enjoy it." He crooked a finger at me. "Come here.

David Mitchell

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.

Alanis Morissette

So forgive me, love, if I cry in your shower. So forgive me, love, for the salt in your bed. So forgive me, love, if I cry all afternoon....

Countee Cullen

Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago

Mark Teixeira

Every time I pray, I ask for forgiveness. I'm a sinner. I sin every single day. But I do know that God loves me. I do know that God forgives me. It helps me in my every day life because there's nothing anyone can do to me that I can't forgive them for.

Jim Elliot

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

Charles Stanley

Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.

Charles Spurgeon

He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

Charles Spurgeon

Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive.

Alan Paton

Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are vengeful. God is forgiving. We remember. God redeems.

Denis Waitley

We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.

Cecily von Ziegesar

...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

Alan Moore

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

David Hockney

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Live a life less ordinary.

Beatrice Webb

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Dee Snider

My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.

Benjamin Haydon

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Bernard Cornwell

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

Charles Lyell

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.