Exempting Quotes

#1. [O]mnipotence is nothing else than subjectivity exempting itself from all objective conditions and limitations[.]

Ludwig Feuerbach

#2. What has been given is a new perspective on living life, and what has been taken away is the illusion of limitless life and the belief in a personal specialness exempting us from natural law.

Irvin D. Yalom

#3. I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

Ulysses S. Grant

#4. I like not charity unreasonably large for the exempting of ourselves from the labour of duty: I would not choose such a charitable physician that would make his patients believe that they are in no danger, to save himself the labour of attending them for the cure.

Richard Baxter

#5. To describe something as an accident is a lazy way of exempting oneself from the obligation of investigating or even preventing it in the first place.

Jo Nelson

#6. Care without candor creates dysfunctional relationships. Candor without care creates distant relationships.

John C. Maxwell

#7. There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you'll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can't explain our success, but I think that's a reason.

Luis Suarez

#8. One don't like setting out to help to bring a man to the gallus when you have got his money in your pocket.

G.A. Henty

#9. The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.

Alton Brown

#10. I'm a fan of the truth ... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

Dan Brown

#11. I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

Victor Serge

#12. A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow.

Alice Steinbach

#13. Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.

Zygmunt Bauman

#14. Just the inexplicable wants to be understood within the nonsense of emptiness that belongs to this world of illusion.

Sorin Cerin

#15. The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.

Ben Bernanke

#16. An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

Pearl S. Buck

#17. Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you tell you what I think looks good, but you have to wear it. And as every fashion victim knows, very few people look good in everything.

Betsy Lerner