Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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R. W. DALE Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
GARRISON KEILLOR We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.
GOLDA MEIR The heavenly Father first forgive us our sins for the love of fellowship.
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SAMUEL BUTLER If Christians are all loving and full of God's grace (like some of us really are), do they truly lov...
SOLANGE NICOLE God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are per...
EZRA TAFT BENSON I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.
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OVID We made enough of them for the win. They're going to catch up with us in the next game if we don't s...
JACK BLAYNEY I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.
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AYMAN ODEH We knew our strengths and played up our assets. But we couldn't see what made us unique enough for s...
SYLVIA DAY It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgiv...
HENRY B. EYRING If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.
IAN STEWART We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything... We don't have to tole...
LEWIS B. SMEDES The challenges in life show us our defects of character.
JIM GENOVESE The defects of our youth sustain us in old age.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us o...
ANNA QUINDLEN Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us ...
ERICA SEHYUN SONG Even if our survival skills have become impediments we would like to let go of because they have cea...
MAUREEN BRADY I think for both of us, and, hopefully, for all of us, we wonder, 'Do the dead view us? Do they forg...
MARK SPRAGG Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't ev...
ELLEN DEGENERES When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our...
DALE CARNEGIE Even if our loved ones have assured us that they will be busy at work, even if they told us they hat...
ALAIN DE BOTTON They showed their instant love for us and us for them the next morning when we went to leave. So man...
DOUGLAS NIMMO God will not forgive us if we fail.
LEONID BREZHNEV We draw into our life those who will help us to grow. Naturally, we tend to have mixed feelings abou...
DONNA GODDARD Parents were good to us, gave us a lot, took care for us when we couldn’t have taken care for ours...
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JOHN GROGAN Afterwards, we will decide if the player fulfils our requirements and whether that is enough for us ...
KLAUS FUCHS We can forgive a man the defects of his qualities, if only he has the qualities of his defects
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
JOHANN VON GOETHE I would say now it's next to impossible for us to make the playoffs. Even if we won the rest of our ...
GENE LAMONT We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects.
STEPHEN FRY Forgive Us Our Press Passes.
DANIEL SCHORR When we apply the lessons we've struggled for our whole lives to learn to the lives of people we lov...
ASPEN MATIS We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or tw...
LEMONY SNICKET When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names ...
BRIAN W. ALDISS When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names ...
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BRIAN W. ALDISS When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt th...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Our enemies make us strong, Miss Muffet, not our friends. Our friends will lie to us, tell us what w...
ANN RINALDI I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
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FRANCOIS FENELON Problems provide us with lessons that our own defects of character wouldn't let us learn any other w...
JIM GENOVESE We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive . . . by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings do...
ANDY ANDREWS [Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will...
FRANK HARRIS If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen fro...
W. WINWOOD READE If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen fro...
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ASHANTI COOK Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to tr...
JUNE JORDAN Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those ...
FRANCOIS DE FENELON We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives c...
TARRYN FISHER Kayla and Karla are our post players and they had great games for us. Defensively and offensively, t...
DANIELLE PETTENGILL Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn'
SARAH BERNHARDT The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of ...
MITCH ALBOM We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.
HENRY WARD BEECHER We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
HENRY WARD BEECHER For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now formi...
ROBERT E. LEE This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothi...
LISI HARRISON If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then ou...
UNKNOWN If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then ou...
NEIL GAIMAN It will go through their server, and they will monitor our system. We won't need to call them if the...
CAROL BRANHAM For them to tie our hands behind our backs and prevent us from participating in this scientific fron...
JOHN WILEY Who cares for his causes of complaint? Are you to break your heart to set his mind at ease? No man u...
WILKIE COLLINS They have done great things for the Northern program, for our team and for each of us. They have mea...
CRAIG NELSON I have published a proclamation: 'Forgive us our transgressions as we forgive those who transgre...
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't ...
C. JOYBELL C. Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everyth...
RONALD REAGAN If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then ou...
UNKNOWN LOVE QUOTE No one else “makes” us do anything. They can’t make us nag them, or make us angry, or make us ...
CATHY BURNHAM MARTIN Their size bothered us. We couldn't get enough open looks inside. Even so, I'm proud of our effort ....
BILL BREWER When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter what...
JACK KORNFIELD When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter what...
JACK KORNFIELD What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If on...
CAMPBELL SCOTT As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America an...
FREDERIC RAPHAEL Our citizens and those who have gone before us have charted the broad outlines of our course. They w...
DAVE FREUDENTHAL Some believe that as an icon the image of Oscar Wilde is too old and notorious--all right, not an ic...
LARA BIYUTS Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaff...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults /a gigantic scaffo...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffo...
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OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
OSCAR WILDE To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is...
OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is...
OSCAR WILDE The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ...
OSCAR WILDE And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness...
OSCAR WILDE It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
OSCAR WILDE Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive t...
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