Top 36 Quotes About Restitution
#1. If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government's attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived.
Els Borst
#2. To every reversal of people's soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. 'Tell me, according to what you judge and I'll tell you who you are. [ ... ] No axiom in politics is more certain than this.
Francois Mitterrand
#3. Indeed that is what our lives are, a project of recovery and restitution; or we have to ironize our always wanting to get something back that we never had and that never existed anyway
Adam Phillips
#4. Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
Eugene Ionesco
#5. Good God, here am I with stockings in either hand, panting towards restitution. I merely require you to keep my soul out of the general conversation.'
'And your brother's soul?' said James Stewart. He was drawling again.
'I understood,' said Lymond, 'that you had that in hand.
Dorothy Dunnett
#6. You can repent of most sins by making restitution, but you can't bring a dead body back to life, and you can't restore your virginity. We are made in God's image, and God is no fornicator.
Josh Hanagarne
#7. A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.
Jefferson Davis
#8. Were only trying to help, but you need to punish them. In a strange way, it will make them feel better. That's the way of society, you make a mistake, make restitution, learn from it, and move on. If there's no restitution, there's no learning. No consequences equals spoiled brats.
Katie Graykowski
#9. Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
Tammy Bruce
#10. To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.
Criss Jami
#11. He was unshakably determined to demand of anyone or anything that wanted to force him to live, whoever and whatever they might be - his grandfather, fate, hell - the restitution of his lost Eden.
He did not hide the obstacles from himself.
Victor Hugo
#12. A statute that lets some wrongfully convicted individuals seek restitution but denies that right to others is an unjust and unequal application of the law.
Eric Schneiderman
#13. They believed that this world was fallen but that restitution would be provided elsewhere, in an afterlife. I believed that this world was fallen and that there was no afterlife.
James Wood
#14. The proof of true repentance is immediate restitution.
Mike Murdock
#15. Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.
Corrie Ten Boom
#16. Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response - never to forgive and never to forget.
Frank Herbert
#17. No matter how much restitution she paid with every word and deed, her blood-stained hands could never really be clean, even if no one else knew they were dirty.
Stacy Hawkins Adams
#18. Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.
Cynthia McKinney
#19. Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator.
Virginia H. Pearce
#20. Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.
Stefan Molyneux
#21. She wondered sometimes if it wasn't all pretense - if, when she shut her eyes and wished restitution upon the whole wounded parade of humanity, she wasn't really wishing away the world that created war and illness so that she might have a world in which there was room to feel sorry for herself.
Danielle Evans
#22. The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
Michel De Montaigne
#23. I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes that give an arc to their characters and allow audiences to get to know these people.
Tracy Letts
#24. What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.
Jared Diamond
#25. He lived a quiet existence where the future was easy to predict and the past was a cancer in remission. It was meaningful, of course. But it was lonely.
Adelheid Manefeldt
#27. An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.
Shannon L. Alder
#28. I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.
Rick Reilly
#29. Because I'm an asshole, and I'm sorry, and I missed you." Three statements unloaded fast enough to penetrate me before I had time to finish fashioning my bulletproof vest.
Santino Hassell
#30. From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the "us," not the "I." For that is true love, is it not?
Nancy Werlin
#31. Booya!" I shouted in pure triumph, the adrenaline turning my manly baritone into a rather terrified-sounding shriek. "What have you got for fiery beams of death, huh? You got nothing for fiery beam of death! Might as well go back to Atari, bug-boy, 'cause you don't got game enough for me!
Jim Butcher
#32. If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.
Paul Thomas Anderson
#33. I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.
John McCain
#35. Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on.
Shannon L. Alder
#36. Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.
Rachel Caine
