Quotes for All
Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashion— although she did tend to stick to trends a little too precisely. The poor thing could not help it. Her choice of clothing simply lacked soul. Gail Carriger
You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason? I was hungry, allowances should be made. Gail Carriger
Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance. Esther Hicks
You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others – that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness. Eric Hoffer
There’s been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections. Edward Said
One life is an absurdly small allowance. Freya Stark
One is so apt to think of people’s affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships. Freya Stark
When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training. Frank Herbert
As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it; if thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy; if sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath … Read more
As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain…. Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great. Francis Quarles