Splendorous Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose — Mahatma Gandhi

Poor Traddles, who had passed the stage of lying with his head upon the desk, and was relieving himself as usual with a burst of skeletons, said he didn't care. Mr. Mell was ill-used. 'Who has ill-used him, you girl?' said Steerforth. 'Why, you have,' returned Traddles. 'What have I done?' said Steerforth. 'What have you done?' retorted Traddles. 'Hurt his feelings, and lost him his situation. — Charles Dickens

I won't ever set the world on fire as a painter,' Dickie said, 'but I get a great deal of pleasure out of it. — Patricia Highsmith

Forgiveness is a gift we can only give to ourselves. — Jeffrey Spahr-Summers

I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing. — Alice Herz-Sommer

The religion of which you are a part is 7 days a week. It isn't just Sunday, it isn't the block plan, it isn't just 3 hours in church, it isn't just the time you spend in Seminary - it's all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kisses wwere a rarity for me growing up, and when they did happen, they often struck me as lifeless, something he did because he felt he was supposed to, not because he wanted to. — Nicholas Sparks

Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled. — Jeremy Griffith

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed. — Leo Tolstoy

To become a better you, keep doing what you have been doing right and learn to correct what you have been doing wrongly. — Israelmore Ayivor