Quotes About Being Spared

#1. But the flip side of being spared was the agony of wondering who hadn't.

Khaled Hosseini

#2. The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future presidential assassin Charles Guiteau saw his being spared as proof of his exceptionalism rather than of the grace from which he benefited.

Candice Millard

#3. Stem-cell research on embryos is an even worse excuse for the slaughter of life than abortion. No woman is even being spared an inconvenience this time ... It's just harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter.

Ann Coulter

#4. It was new to feel protected, and to feel that it was right to accept the protection, to surrender - right, because this peculiar sense of safety was ... not the protection of being spared from battle, but of having won it, not a protection granted to her weakness, but to her strength ...

Ayn Rand

#5. I think she would have preferred being spared from understanding all the physical signals one hopes the world will notice and reward with caresses. It's the body and its longing that bends the mind and teaches the eye to calculate the distance to one's desires so often out of reach.

Erik Valeur

#6. There was a real sophistication and elegance to (Batman: The Animated Series). It certainly appealed to kids but had a depth that really made it fascinating and interesting to watch for adult fans. I think visually, it was stylistically stunning.

Jim Lee

#7. May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.

Heber J. Grant

#8. You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

Henry Moore

#9. We can only achieve true wisdom when our soul is liberated from our bodies by death.

Arianna Huffington

#10. Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for the immortals!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Khaled Hosseini

#12. Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Bob Marley

#13. But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it.

Byron Katie

#14. But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

Alice Walker

#15. Each new child that's born to the Antrobuses seems to them to be sufficient reason for the whole universe's being set in motion; and each new child that dies seems to them to have been spared a whole world of sorrow, and what the end of it will be is still very much an open question.

Thornton Wilder

#16. Entangled cobwebs of my mind keep me awake at night! Need to get back to sm serious writing again!

Deeba Salim Irfan

#17. Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

Halle Berry

#18. Nothing had spared her from being mocked for wetting her pants, not even the fact that she had rushed to the delegado's aid.

Laura Esquivel

#19. No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.

Diane Setterfield

#20. My style is unique and random. But I think it's important that it still makes sense.

Jess Glynne

#21. I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative!

Hilaire Belloc