Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Anne Lamott

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

Anne Lamott

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...

Anna Akhmatova

You do not know just what you've been forgiven.

Albert Ellis

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

Albert Ellis

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

Albert Camus

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Albert Camus

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

Dar Williams

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

Jan Karon

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

Juvenal

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

Charlotte Bronte

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

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.

Charlotte Bronte

It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.

Aristotle

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

Louis Farrakhan

I would hope that forgiveness would come to us for any remarks we made, and forgiveness would come to him and to all of us who, in our zeal, took different positions on a very controversial subject.

Petrarch

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Carrie Fisher

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

Bill Vaughan

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

Bill Vaughan

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

Bill Bradley

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

Keith Urban

I'm lettin' go of all my lonely yesterdays, I've forgiven myself for the mistakes I've made.

I hope that happened by mistake. By mistake, I forgive her (the 15-year-old girl).

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace

I'm very sorry. We inconvenienced you. Hiro-kun will make his pants shorter, so please forgive us.

I'm truly sorry. To make it up to you, Seki-kun will get in shape, so please forgive us.

They don't like any of those people. It's all politics. No matter what happens on-set, off-set, all is forgiven when you get that Oscar.

Lord Byron

But who forgives the senior's ceaseless verse, / Whose hairs grow hoary as his rhymes grow worse?

Hannah More

We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.

Hannah More

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

Hannah More

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Eugene Kennedy

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

Ernest Holmes

Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.