Quotes About Saving Graces

#1. It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard.

Jane Hirshfield

#2. As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.

Leo Gordon

#3. Our lives and the love we share are the saving graces of that night.

Jessica Park

#4. I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become ... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

May Sarton

#5. Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

Michael R. Burch

#6. You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

Elizabeth Edwards

#7. The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

Charles Williams

#8. Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

Abraham Zaleznik

#9. All my life I've wanted to tell people I love them. Fear usually held me back, that they wouldn't care, or they wouldn't hear, or they would take too much from me once they knew.

Patricia Gaffney

#10. Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

Henry A. Kissinger

#11. Anywhere art visits turns into a gorgeous place!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

Emile Durkheim

#13. I believe nothing. Belief is intellectual surrender; "faith" a state of willed self-delusion.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#14. The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

Jonathan Edwards

#15. That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.

Randy West

#16. Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Alan K. Simpson

#17. Did you ever want something so deeply you were scared to let yourself have it? Like a desire so great you know you will never forgive yourself if you fail. So you hang back. And then you wake up one day and you realize if you don't do it now, it will move out of reach forever.

Nicole Mones

#18. Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

Lord Mountbatten

#19. Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

Ken Livingstone

#20. If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.

Cynthia Lewis

#21. Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing
faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

Terry Tempest Williams

#22. There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.

Sylvia Plath