#all

One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development. ↗

— Frank Murkowski

#development #environmentally #our #pioneer #role

I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in the crossroads of history and talked hot and mean about the colored, giving my poor and desperate people a reason to feel superior to somebody, to anybody. I know that even as the words of George Wallace rang through my Alabama, the black family who lived down the dirt road from our house sent fresh-picked corn and other food to the poor white lady and her three sons, because they knew their daddy had run off, because hungry does not have a color. ↗

— Rick Bragg

#george-wallace #hunger #poverty #family

Listen to me." He grabbed my arms, holding me there. " I couldn't find you. And I will never forgive myself for that. Ever. ↗

— Ally Carter

#gallagher-girls #out-of-sight-out-of-time #zach #forgiveness

Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#fallout #forgiveness #forgiveness

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. ↗

— Lewis B. Smedes

#begun #feel #hurt #know #power

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it. ↗

— Lewis B. Smedes

#evil #excuse #face #forgive #full

Thanks for treating me like, you know, a person through all this shit. I know that isn't always easy. (Stark) You do have a habit of pissing on other people's welcome mats. But, when a gentleman gives you a booty call to a massacre, it's easy to forgive. Ciao. (Candy) ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#forgiveness #massacre #forgiveness

An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on one side and the Keystone pipeline is on the other. ↗

— Fred Upton

#congressional #creating #divides #economic #economic growth

He who is brave is free ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#freedom #gallantry #freedom

Except those who repent thereafter and do righteous deeds,verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. ↗

— Anonymous

#deeds #forgiveness #forgiving #merciful #repent