“If I can't forgive him, the Lord won’t forgive me.”
George Wallace (1919–1998) 45th Governor of Alabama
About Arthur Bremer http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20120608/NEWS/120609818?p=4&tc=pg
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“If I can't forgive him, the Lord won’t forgive me.”
George Wallace (1919–1998) 45th Governor of Alabama
About Arthur Bremer http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20120608/NEWS/120609818?p=4&tc=pg
“They won’t put up a statue to me. No, no, no. Nobody’s got that sense of humour.”
Robert Muldoon (1921–1992) Prime Minister of New Zealand, politician
Source: From the documentary Robert Muldoon: The Grim Face of Power, 1994
Context: Responding to a journalist while attending the unveiling of a statue of Sir Keith Holyoake.
“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Letter to Louis Untermeyer (8 July 1915)
1910s
“it came pretty late In a sense it is good. It won’t get over my head.”
Jeet Thayil (1959) Indian writer
After winning the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature-2013 <br class="br">Mohammed Iqbal, in: Jeet Thayil wins DSC Prize for South Asian Literature http://www.thehindu.com/books/jeet-thayil-wins-dsc-prize-for-south-asian-literature/article4348766.ece, The Hindu, 27 January 2013
“If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.”
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
My Specter, st. 14
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)