Assuaging Guilt Quotes & Sayings

Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide. — Donella Meadows

Life was too short to sit around waiting for Mr Perfect. — Emily Arden

Seducing a girl is no art, but it needs a stroke of good fortune to find one worth seducing. — Soren Kierkegaard

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. — Moliere

How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real purpose of assuaging my guilt about something I did not wish to succeed in the first place? — Lawrence Fagg

Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion. — David Halberstam

Being success is not an easy thing. It need courage, fight, brave, and time. Let them judge. Just show them the result later. Because a wise man said that success is the biggest revenge. — Sheilanda Khoirunnisa

I know you have baggage, I know you're going to be a pain in my ass, but I love you more that I ever dreamed possible. — J.M. Madden

There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from. — Josh Billings

Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for. — Stephen Covey

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. — Hermann Hesse

Once she had told him, "The thing about cross-cultural relationships is that you spend so much time explaining. My ex-boyfriends and I spent a lot of time explaining. I sometimes wondered whether we would even have anything at all to say to each other if we were from the same place," and it pleased him to hear that, because it gave his relationship with her a depth, a lack of trifling novelty. They were from the same place and they still had a lot to say to each other. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Showing joy by jumping up and down and clapping goes away at some point between pre-school and being old enough to go to orgies. — Dana Gould

Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself. — Albert Einstein

'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes. — Eric Clapton