Mercy Quotes - Page 27

• There is no greater mercy than to remind and inspire people to study the fear of God.

  Yisroel Salanter

  People, Inspire, Study

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• People are always pleased to indulge their religiosity when it allows them to stand in judgment of someone else, licenses them to feel superior to someone else, tells them they are more righteous than someone else. They are less enthusiastic when religiosity demands that they be compassionate to someone else. That they show charity, service and mercy to everyone else.

  Leonard Pitts

  People, Charity, Demand

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• There's a big shift in our whole way of living, and it started maybe 10 years ago when [smartphones] came into existence. Up until then, we were at the mercy of the press, and so-called experts that would tell us what to think and how to think.

  Tommy Chong

  Thinking, Smartphones, Years

  Interview with Old Hippie, beyondchronic.com. June 30, 2016.

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• A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Winning, Games

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I think when somebody seeks mercy and forgiveness and means it, and I was with [Donald Trump] the entire time, including when he learned about this, people ought to think about that. They ought to think about when somebody asks you for forgiveness contrite and for mercy - are you willing to give it?

  Kellyanne Conway

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Mercy Watson is pure fun for me as a writer, because I think of her as kind of sorbet - a palate cleanser - between larger works. It's always a relief to come back to her.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Fun, Thinking, Relief

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Thinking, Play, Laughing

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Character, Long, Watson

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• Mercy Watson is a pig. She lives with Mr. and Mrs. Watson, who are not pigs. I had that basic premise, but I couldn't make it work. I would come back to it, try it, see that I was failing, and put it aside.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Pigs, Trying, Failing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Block, Greed, Missing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The Watsons have lost sight of the fact that Mercy Watson is a pig, and they love her truly, madly, deeply. They live next door to two elderly sisters, Eugenia Lincoln and Baby Lincoln. Eugenia Lincoln is horrified that a pig is living in the house next door. Baby Lincoln secretly likes Mercy a great deal.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Baby, Sight, Pigs

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Watson love Mercy [Watson]. Eugenia hates Mercy. Baby likes Mercy. Mercy loves toast. And the plot, if you want to be so generous as to call it a plot, turns on those elements. love Mercy. Eugenia hates Mercy. Baby likes Mercy. Mercy loves toast. And the plot, if you want to be so generous as to call it a plot, turns on those elements.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Baby, Hate, Likes

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Editors, Editing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When you win, you can afford to be gracious, you can afford to have a little more mercy.

  Nina Turner

  Winning, Littles, Gracious

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Being out on the ocean seems like a different world to being in the mountains and the backcountry, but there is also a lot of symmetry. They each have their own biorhythms from a motherly embrace to tempestuous wrath. What I love about being out in nature is that you are at the mercy of your own decision making.

  Travis Rice

  Ocean, Wrath, Decision

  Source: www.outdoorjapan.com

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• I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go out of business as a people. Nobody's going to have any mercy. And nobody's going to have any compunction about making slaves out of them.

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, Support, Community

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Heart, Giving

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for justice and mercy for those who needed help, etc. I wouldn't personally endorse everything they said, any more than I would for critics of power and its crimes today. But rather generally I think they played an honorable role - and suffered accordingly.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Thinking, Justice

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Jesus is not "out of touch with our reality. He's been through weakness and testing, experienced it all - all but the sin. So let's walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help" (Heb. 4:15 - 16 MSG).

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Reality, Msg

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• People are at the mercy of internet trolls who bring people who are excellent in their fields down to their level. They're diminishing someone's flame to make theirs brighter.

  David Haye

  Flames, People, Levels

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is holy.

  Paul Virilio

  Buddhist, Mean, Body

  Source: ctheory.net

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• You can't go to church without praying ten or fifteen times for God to have mercy on you. You can't sing "Amazing Grace" without reminding yourself that the reason God's grace is amazing is it saves a wretch like you. This self-denigration stuff - Jesus died for my sins - is nothing but a guilt message. That's the thing we've got to get out from under. That's not Christianity. That's sort of fourth-century Christianity that got turned into doctrines and dogmas that we've never been able to escape.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Self, Grace

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• You don't take your newborn baby, put that baby on your lap, and say, "Now listen, kid, you were born in sin, you're not worth anything, and you've got to pray for mercy." That's not going to raise a healthy adult. And that's what we do Sunday after Sunday after Sunday.

  John Shelby Spong

  Baby, Kids, Sunday

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• As an actor, you are at the mercy of others for what role you can be seen for and then what you will be cast in.

  Grace Lynn Kung

  Roles, Actors, Casts

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• The real issue of dealing with proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical or biological is: What is your tolerance for risk? And my tolerance for risk for WMD proliferation is pretty close to zero. Because otherwise, we and our allies are at the mercy of regimes like Ahmadinejad and the mullahs in Tehran, or Kim Jong Il and the Hitler-in-the-bunker mentality in Pyongyang, or others who don't share our calculus on the value of human life.

  John Bolton

  Zero, Real, Issues

  Source: humanevents.com

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