Lenity Quotes & Sayings

Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash. — Flea

I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a little dangerous. And we've certainly seen that recently with Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, all saying AI is just taking off and it's going to take over the world very quickly. And the thing that they share is none of them work in this technological field. — Rodney Brooks

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner — William Shakespeare

I would forget my own beating heart, my own trembling body, my own sense of inexpiable degradation. I got up and started to throw off my things. Then the door opened and Jake came into the cabin. I did not want to look at him at first. I turned my back and fumbled with the tap of the basin. He did not say anything either. I whistled a tune under my breath. I wished he had been drunk, or laughing, or cursing, or in some way dragging himself down to my level. — Daphne Du Maurier

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. — Francis Bacon

Doesn't matter where you are, baby. I'll come for you." She lifts her watery eyes to mine and I state confidently, "I'll come for you. — Belle Aurora

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity. — Baron De Montesquieu

Yes?" said Clary, her voiced sharply edged. "Since I found out what? That he's a killer transvestite who molests cats?"
"No wonder that cat of his hates everyone. — Cassandra Clare

Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice. — Joseph Joubert

Emotions can either energise you or de-energise you — Mavis Mazhura

If the empire had been afflicted by any recent calamity, by a plague, a famine, or an unsuccessful war; if the Tiber had, or if the Nile had not, risen beyond its banks; if the earth had shaken, or if the temperate order of the seasons had been interrupted, the superstitious Pagans were convinced that the crimes and the impiety of the Christians, who were spared by the excessive lenity of the government, had at length provoked the divine justice. — Edward Gibbon

By now everyone knows that I picked Kentucky, and I am definitely happy with my decision and that it's all finally over. — Nerlens Noel

The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past. — Augusten Burroughs

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side. — Hosea Ballou

That his majesty gave many marks of his great lenity, often — Jonathan Swift

My idea was that the role of the special forces were to train Vietnamese to behave as guerrillas, harassing the supply lines down through the mountains of the, ah, the Viet Cong. And the special American special forces were to train their special forces to do that. — Roger Hilsman