Mollified Quotes

#1. The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.

Henry Hazlitt

#2. A hungry people neither listens to reason nor is mollified by fair treatment or swayed by any appeals.

Seneca.

#3. Thomas Bowman's toupee, alas, was never found. He was somewhat mollified by the gift of a very fine hat from Westcliff on Christmas day.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. Part of me felt mollified by the letter, though another part felt he still could have been a bit more tactful in his earlier treatment, busy or no. The rest of me pointed out that all of these "parts of me" probably should be in therapy.

Richelle Mead

#5. Somewhat mollified by certain cups of very good coffee, he came out smiling and talking, in tolerably restored humor.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#6. No clear line separates healing from upgrading. Medicine almost always begins by saving people from falling below the norm, but the same tools and know-how can then be used to surpass the norm.

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. Every gesture, every I love you; all of it was tinted by the great ugly lie underpinning her life.

Katharine McGee

#8. Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.

Martin Luther

#9. I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.

Jeremy Thomas

#10. If everybody's doing everything, then who's accountable for anything?

Michael Gerber

#11. A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today.

Thorsten Heins

#12. This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.

Robertson Davies

#13. In one timeless instant a complex impression, not of knowledge but of feeling, penetrated her awareness like an indelible dream. An imprint of evil and a preponderance of good, both crying that somehow it was meant to be. Then nothing, only the cold apathy of deepest space.

Marcha A. Fox

#14. I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.

Ken Kesey

#15. Switchblade," I said. "Nice. I could use one of those."
"That's not enough?" He whispered, pointing at my gun.
"It does the job, if the job us to kill. I need a backup that's not always so lethal."
"You could try getting yourself into fewer situations where you need a weapon.

Kelley Armstrong

#16. To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#17. Why did the male IQ divide rather than multiply in groups?

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

#18. The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.

Alan Menken

#19. When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

E.B. White

#20. I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

George Bernard Shaw