Remit Quotes

#1. Supposed to be commissioned by the Church, the pardoners would sell absolution for any sin from gluttony to homicide, cancel any vow of chastity or fasting, remit any penance for money, most of which they pocketed.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

Ruth Wilson

#3. PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

Polly Toynbee

#5. I don't see any point in having a public service broadcaster which attempts to compete with the commercial sector. Obviously part of its remit is to entertain, but entertainment doesn't necessarily mean scraping the bottom of the barrel and appealing to the very lowest common denominator.

Jonathan Meades

#6. 280 : If the debtor is in a difficulty, grant him time Till it is easy for him to repay. But if ye remit it by way of charity, that is best for you if ye only knew.

Anonymous

#7. His remit will be to monitor the use of reality-modification weapons by both sides in the conflict and to assure the civilized worlds that the New Republic does not engage in gratuitous use of time travel as a weapon of mass destruction.

Charles Stross

#8. Your shadow is bought and paid for, and your death will not remit that payment. You can go shadowless into the shadowless world, and your death will only be one last dark thing on my long dark road. It will hurt me but I do not care. It is all but over.

Erin Bow

#9. We're doing some very exciting, bold things, pioneering content on mobile and for broadband, ... My vision is to say, as we take the strategy forward, we are doing it to deliver public remit. We're thinking less and less about C4 and more about the brand family.

Tim Duncan

#10. I was in a state of perpetual disbelief. I would have thought that someone would have recognized what was coming before June 2007. If it really took that June remit data to cause a sudden realization, well, it makes me wonder what a 'Wall Street analyst' really does all day." By

Michael Lewis

#11. Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

Jeremy Grantham

#12. curricular: they occur outside his playing remit. This is Lingard of the social media meme, the dab-dance

Andrew Kirby

#13. Those living in rural areas as well as those with a planning policy remit for those areas have an important responsibility to protect green belt agricultural land for the wider benefit of feeding the UK into the uncertain future that we all face

Phil Harding

#14. I'm interested in looking for solutions because it's become the case that in fashion you're either a villain or a victim. Look at the industry's very limited remit in terms of body size, for example.

Erin O'Connor

#15. It is true that the blood of the Son of God was shed for sins through the fall and those committed by men, yet men can commit sins which it can never remit.

Brigham Young

#16. That the state might exceed its remit and damage the market by distorting its operations was not taken very seriously in these years.

Tony Judt

#17. Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

Richard Wall

#18. He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.

Clement Of Alexandria

#19. In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin - consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#20. A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

Kid Rock

#21. The spirits made her sick, and I don't just mean the Scotch.

Lenora Henson

#22. What makes America great was a government that was founded to be limited to doing one thing. I really believe the whole purpose of America, the aspirational value - why everybody who wants to come to this country wants to come here - was because we respected the dignity of every living person.

Rick Santorum

#23. Practice non-action. Work without doing.

Laozi

#24. We cannot always trace God's hand but we can always trust God's heart.

Charles Spurgeon

#25. When shall I cease to regret you! - when learn to feel a home elsewhere!

Jane Austen

#26. I'm a complete foodie, but I'm a terrible cook. If a guy can get me in the kitchen and we actually have fun cooking, that's amazing.

Emily Ratajkowski