Vindicate In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing. — Vance Havner

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again. — Gillian Flynn

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong. — Joely Richardson

When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close. — Dan Gilroy

I believe our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are but we are responsible for who we have become. — Unknown

Shit! Cressida! Move!" The words were barely out of his mouth when he leapt forward and down, jumping six steps and rolling when he hit the bottom, catching her and tucking her against him. Above them, metal popped and the boulder slammed down, resealing the hole. — Rachel Grant

We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need immediately. We are all in the same boat. — Kofi Annan

Listen. Take the best. Leave the rest. — Richard Branson

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is something at stake any time we cross from one circle to another, a simultaneous relinquishing and hardening of the self. — John Leland

A piece of rusty pump and a pile of stones,
all that was left of the place he and Marthy had called home. Home. What a big word that was. Lots of attempts made lately to belittle it. Plenty of fun poked at it. Young folks laughed about it,
called it a place to park. Everybody wanted to get some place else, seemed like. They'd find out. They'd understand some day. When they got old, they'd know. They'd want to go home. sometimes in their lives everybody wanted to go home. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate. — Antonio Villaraigosa

Suppose hypothetically that one out of every 200 people or so is a jerk. In today's world these jerks will discover that if they enter government or business they can become super rich and powerful jerks. Do we conclude, therefore, that markets (or government) have caused greed? No, the fact is that once we no longer live in tiny tribes of 200, anonymity allows some people, who would have been assholes in a small tribe but who would have been sanctioned there, to go off and become jerks on a much, much larger scale. — Michael Strong

Part of it may be that translators are paid by the word, so the more carefully they work on a translation, the less they are paid for their time, which means that if they are very careful they may not earn much. And often, the more interesting or unusual the book, the more painstaking they have to be. For one or two difficult books, I took so long over each page that I earned less than a dollar an hour. But I'm not sure this explains why so many people do not respect translators or would simply prefer not to think about them. — Lydia Davis