Best Lenient Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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“Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.”

People Ifs Firsts Might Today Court Offenders Death Row Lenient

Author:Thomas Sowell

“With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.”

Children Book Soul Literature Sound Written Theory Criticism Assuming Critics Exception Children's Books Literary Criticism Children's Literature Lenient

Author:Katharine Sergeant Angell White

“Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.”

People Doe Causes Kindness Limits Anger Terror Disgusting Severe Lenient

Author:Saadi

“Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years.”

Years Kind Long Happens Process Race Ought Reconciliation Clash Xenophobia Distressing Lenient

Author:Desmond Tutu

“It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether too harsh with its native peoples. It is sadly humorous to notice that the native in South Africa, however, holds an exactly reverse opinion and the fault he finds with the South African Government is that it is far too lenient in its administration of laws throughout the native populace.”

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Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.”

People Knows Wells Overcoming Difficulty Blame Charity Neighbor Cease Best Things Strict Boundless Lenient

Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence

“In the "Personal Story" segment tonight, the state of Oregon is extremely liberal in its state government and judicial system.That state has lenient drug laws, including wide access to medical marijuana.”

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Author:Bill O'Reilly

“I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages, I just do it. When I want to write, I write. It's all part of the same thing for me.”

Ifs Want Feels Writing Animal Photograph Ice Small Things Just Do It Cubes Collages Lenient

Author:Matthea Harvey

“Aaron Persky who is the judge who really I think it's fair to say there is a mob seeking to recall him because of what's perceived as a too-lenient sentence in a sexual assault case.”

Thinking Cases Judging Fairs Seeking Sentences Recalls Assault Sexual Assault Lenient

Author:Dahlia Lithwick

“All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.”

Religion Values Teach Knowing Failing Islam Value Systems Lenient

Author:Abdurrahman Wahid

“Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.”

May Stupid Creatures Pleasant Sheep Vicious Flocks Shepherds Countrymen Sly Docile Unruly Lenient

Book:Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

“When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.”

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Author:Amy Chua

“Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven't got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a pearl we have lost, but a swine?”

Ifs Want Giving Should Action Young Dies Lost Interesting Quality Worst Advice Havens Comfort Faults Temptation Journal Pearls Shameful Keepers Die Young Swine Lenient

Book:Invitation To The Waltz

Source: Invitation To The Waltz

“The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.”

Kind Produce Taste Cameras Cruelty Experts Preference Surrealist Lenient

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.”

Reality Social Morning Wander Owners Boss Afternoon Lenient

Author:Donald E. Westlake

“So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.”

Thinking Long Self Sin Faults Shocked Fault Finding Lenient

Author:Francois Fenelon

“No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; when men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge: this may be bad; but it is human nature.”

“The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his own head and a foul so telegraphed that even the lenient referee seemed to have his card out a couple of seconds before contact was made, to show the first yellow of the game.”

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Author:Phil Cornwell

“Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.”

Years Mother Father Style Minimalist Lenient

Book:The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016

Source: The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016

“I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.”

Personality Lenient

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.”

Parent Differences Growing Up Growing Taught Morality Lenient

Author:Mark Hoppus