Yet decency nagged at their reluctant hearts; and they acknowledged that, too, in unconscious phrases -- 'I fail to understand...', 'I cannot bring myself to overlook...', 'Tolerance is all very well up to a point...' -- as if they had tried the ways of magnanimity but found them too exigent.


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The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to bui...
SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER
I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best ...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
I think they're a little shocked at first. . . . Then they start laughing or grinning or shaking my ...
SHIRLEY MANSON
Sex is not the enemy . . . I won't feel guilty no matter what they're telling me,
SHIRLEY MANSON
I state for the record that I am PRO CHOICE. No government, no man, no neighbour of mine is going to...
SHIRLEY MANSON
The communication had gotten so bad that I don't think any of us know, even to this day, what was go...
SHIRLEY MANSON
I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the ...
SHIRLEY EATON
Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason t...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
America is composed of all kinds of people - part of the difficulty in our nation today is due to th...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chos...
SHIRLEY MANSON
If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call...
SHIRLEY MANSON
Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.
SHIRLEY KNIGHT
I'd like to run away from you, but if you didn't come and find me, I would die...
SHIRLEY BASSEY
I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.
SHIRLEY BASSEY
No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.
SHIRLEY BASSEY
I love him because he is Welsh and stylish...and because he gave me these shoes.
SHIRLEY BASSEY
Who would have thought a little girl from Tiger Bay would one day become a Dame?
SHIRLEY BASSEY
We are exploring the sale of both assets. Whether [the Braves and Turner South] were going to be sol...
SHIRLEY POWELL
Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at th...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
Conran's rule of housework: it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour
SHIRLEY CONRAN
I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.
SHIRLEY JONES
I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, ...
SHIRLEY JONES
If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All tha...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive re...
JOHN SHIRLEY
By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I'm actually the poor horse. The only t...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have pe...
SHIRLEY MANSON
For me, the safest place is out on a limb
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
Good luck needs no explanation.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anyw...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
Among Republicans, there is universal outrage that Gore and the Democrats won't accept the results o...
CRAIG SHIRLEY
Right now you could flip a 12-sided coin and come up with the nominee.
CRAIG SHIRLEY
Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.
WILLIAM SHIRLEY
I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
SHIRLEY MANSON
When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, y...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
[The lunch also brought the elusive Allen Franklin, retired Southern Co. CEO, back to the city from ...
SHIRLEY FRANKLIN
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than ...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What ...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. ...
CRAIG SHIRLEY
We-Lyn Shaw, Norgie Hester and myself-went to see the inauguration the year George Bush was sworn in...
SHIRLEY LEINWAND
"I call attention to the dark side maybe a little bit for mutual catharsis but also to try to paint ...
JOHN SHIRLEY
I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I ...
JOHN SHIRLEY
I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
JOHN SHIRLEY