Humphry Davy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
-
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
-
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
-
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
-
You think my apology means I'm weak. But it doesn't. It means I am trying to learn how to be strong.
-
It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.
-
Sometimes all you're looking for is an apology.
-
I have a no-apology policy.
-
When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.
-
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
-
There's never really been a true apology for slavery.
-
I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance.
-
I don't have any issues with clowns - I feel like I owe them an apology in some ways.
-
A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
-
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apology?
-
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
-
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
-
There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
-
The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.
-
For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.
-
All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan and the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!
-
Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
-
The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins.
