Mercy Quotes - Page 30

• We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.

  Joel Osteen

  Mean, People, Receiving

  "Interview With Joel and Victoria Osteen". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 22, 2006.

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• I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Fierce, Tire

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.368, Library of America

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• There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Two, Doe, Bathroom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Basketball, Good Friend, Sheep

  "Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness".

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• Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

  Theodore White

  Bravery, Grace, Greek

  Theodore Harold White (1965). “The Making of the President: 1964”

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• Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Moving, Hands, Waiting

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• Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.

  Marisha Pessl

  Fighting, Men, Justice

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.498, Penguin

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• My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Fire, Light, Vengeance

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• That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN

  Thornton Wilder

  Time, Moving, Passion

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy

  Joan Bauer

  Mistake, Father, World

  Joan Bauer (2006). “Best Foot Forward”, p.26, Penguin

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• She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

  Margaret Atwood

  Events, Knows

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.463, Anchor

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• I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Giving, Done, Give Me Strength

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.364, Penguin

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• The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Boxing, Giving, Dabs

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Apr 18, 2014

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• That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

  John Donne

  Thinking, Debt, Remember

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.175, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle all important questions, but tell me, dear, isn't it because you're young, because you haven't had time to suffer till you settled a single one of your questions? You boldly look forward, isn't it because you cannot foresee or expect anything terrible, because so far life has been hidden from your young eyes? You are bolder, more honest, deeper than we are, but think only, be just a little magnanimous, and have mercy on me.

  Anton Chekhov

  Eye, Thinking, Sight

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…”, p.454, e-artnow

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• But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.

  Michel Faber

  Divorce, Eye, Two

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• For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Children, Justice

  "The Coloured Lands". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1938.

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• And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wicked, Gone, Stories

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• My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolations, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, See how the night has no terrors for one who remembers the name.

  Leonard Cohen

  Heart, Night, Sky

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.31, McClelland & Stewart

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• That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the center of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it.

  Thomas Hardy

  Cells, Littles, Noise

  Thomas Hardy (1906). “The pocket Thomas Hardy, selections from the Wessex novels and poems, made by A.H. Hyatt”

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• and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

  Ani DiFranco

  Integrity, Moving, Home

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• I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Children, Believe

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• God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Men, Doubt, Religion

  Song: Brilliant Disguise, Album: Tunnel Of Love, 1987

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• A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right

  Neil Peart

  Light, Color, Justice

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• She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Kissing, Knives, Muffins

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.403, Diversion Books

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