Palliated Quotes

#1. But the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favour, and reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

Samuel Johnson

#2. We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor

Samuel Johnson

#3. Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

Joe Perry

#4. Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.

Susan Moody

#5. A good Christian is bound to relinquish not only goods and children, but life itself, for the glory of his Redeemer: therefore I am resolved to sacrifice every thing in this transitory world, for the sake of salvation in a world that will last to eternity.

John Foxe

#6. My heart is so tired

Rudyard Kipling

#7. God had banished man from the Garden of Eden for daring to trespass upon the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
- But What if man learned to grow his own Tree? Where might it end?
- She didn't knew the answer. She knew only one thing for certain.
Someone had to stop Them

James Rollins

#8. I started out doing things like 'Flash Forward,' where I was the girl-next-door, and then, I did a show called 'Higher Ground,' where I played this really mean, sarcastic girl. Then 'Firefly' happened, and everybody thought of me as this bubbly, sweet girl-next-door again.

Jewel Staite

#9. Life doesn't get easier, you just get stronger.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#10. Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.

Augustus William Hare

#11. Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

Gale Norton

#12. Dear Lord, make us truly grateful for what it is that we are about to receive.

Ina May Gaskin

#13. Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.

Philip Neri

#14. I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.

Tom T. Hall

#15. I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

Brewster Ghiselin

#16. All through college, I was searching for characters that would make me unique and set me apart from the typical ventriloquist with the typical dummy that was the little boy, cheeky hard figure like Charlie McCarthy.

Jeff Dunham