"If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is thisÂ : a deep regret for many bitter words I have used in my life, deep sincere repentance for my violence of language. But I hope they will be forgiven me by God and man, because not once in all my life have I attacked anybody unjustly from my point of view, and without believing it was my duty to do so."

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Source : "Fiery Politician, Dies, The Globe and Mail" by Henri Bourassa, p. A1, September 1, 1952.

Henri Bourassa

#Regret Quotes #Believe Quotes #Men Quotes

“Life is a tragedy full of joy.”

Source : New York Times, January 29, 1979.
“What is this you write- 'Come home? Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any one to desert his post. Send us only our first twenty men and I may be tempted to come to help you to find the second twenty.”
“The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.”

Source : Kent Beck (2000). “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change”, p.28, Addison-Wesley Professional
“Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.”

Source : Jack Vance (2011). “Rhialto the Marvellous”, p.73, Hachette UK
“I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.”

Source : Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004
“Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come to convey... in many languages the most precious truths of Christianity had to force their way by bending stubborn words to new ideas, and filling old terms with new content.”

Source : "Western Women in Eastern Lands: An Outline Study of Fity Years of Woman's Work in Foreign Missions".
“A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.”

Source : John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket
“I find forgiveness to be really healthy.”

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