Extenuates Quotes

#1. It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

Samuel Johnson

#2. To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.

William Shakespeare

#3. And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.

John Henry Newman

#4. What was a coincidence, Moody thought, but a stilled moment in a sequence that had yet to be explained?

Eleanor Catton

#5. Ray kept well away from the shed. He hated the loony gestures of the furniture, its bossiness, the way Maxine would shape a table to enclose the sitter at it, trapping him like a baby in a high chair or a school boy at his inkwell.

Helen Garner

#6. Kiernan leans forward. "I'm guessing that's because you can make it work, Mr. Houdini. Maybe that's how you manage . . ." He pauses when my kick lands on his shin, but finishes the sentence anyway. ". . . some of your more elaborate escapes.

Rysa Walker

#7. A rose that blooms in the desert has the privilege of being the only flower for miles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. You can't grow strong without resistance.

Rick Warren

#9. For now I had five children by him: the only work perhaps that fools are good for.

Daniel Defoe

#10. Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

Salvador Dali

#11. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

J.B. Priestley

#12. Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.

Robert Harris

#13. The worst of a bad situation is that it makes us tell lies.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#14. MiSSS SScott
points to the numbers
along the wall.
I count up to twenty.
The class claps
on its own.
I'm furious,
unable to explain
I already learned
fractions and how to purify water.
So this is what dumb feels like. I hate, hate,
hate it.

Thanhha Lai

#15. I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

Elie Wiesel

#16. With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

David Halberstam