Spares Quotes

• Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

  Edward Gibbon

  Men, Cities, Empires

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.358

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• There were three options [in Allied], which were for [Bred Pitt] to shoot [Marion Cotillard], for them to escape, or for her to pull the trigger, which is a heroic act to spare him. When I was thinking about how it would end, a long time ago, I think I tried each of them to see, but two of them did not work.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Two, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud.

  Bob Dylan

  Proud, Defeated

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jewels, Jewelry, Moments

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• If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

  Agnes Repplier

  Loss, Ill Health, Anxiety

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

  Benjamin Franklin

  People, Affliction, Bears

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• Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.

  Mike McIntyre

  Giving, Collaboration, Sometimes

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• I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Ignorance, Men, Forever

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.375, U of Nebraska Press

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• When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see God’s awesome faithfulness. Nothing – not even the instinct to spare His own Son – will turn him back from keeping His word.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Son, Looks, Faithfulness

  Sinclair B. Ferguson (1985). “A Heart for God”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.

  C. S. Lewis

  People, Giving, Income

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• Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.

  Abu Hanifa

  Wisdom, Islamic, Wrath

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• Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Pain, Fear, Mean

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• When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Faithful, Enemy

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• Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Attitude, Self, Negative

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• I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

  Otto von Bismarck

  War, Evil, Endeavor

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• The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

  Suze Orman

  Family And Friends, Want, Lasts

  "Your Month-by-Month Money Blueprint" by Suze Orman, www.oprah.com. January 2011.

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• What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Shame, Humane, Regard

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• Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

  Pope John Paul II

  Reality, Men, Temptation

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• Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that at the end of the day there will at least be one redeeming card of our very own. Lord, if it is not too much to ask, send us to bed with a few shreds of self-respect upon which we can congratulate ourselves. But whatever you do, do not preach grace. Give us something to do, anything; but spare us the indignity of this indiscriminate acceptance.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Acceptance, Self, Giving

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• A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

  Anna Seward

  Acquisition, Attention, Language

  Anna Seward (1810). “The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence”, p.13

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• Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Risk

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• To spend more money, you have to have more money, but time is fixed and we all have the same amount to spare. How we choose to spend it can make a significant difference on the impact we have in our careers or in the world.

  Simon Sinek

  Impact, Careers, Differences

  "How To Spend Your Time: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.

  Marco Rubio

  Home, Guy, Trying

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• Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Philosophical, Animal, Thinking

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• Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

  Samuel Pepys

  Friendship, Real Friends, Bed

  Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1985). “The Shorter Pepys”, p.651, Univ of California Press

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