Allowances Quotes

I didn`t want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn`t see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

(Luther could have solved this for us by coming out, but I can`t hate on him too much for his silence. As I`ve said before, artists get moral allowances the rest of us don`t. Their art is their get-out-of-jail-free card.) Luther`s only politics, ... were music and love: He lived for the love of music and believed resolutely in the power of music to heal by affirming love. In that sense, Luther was an ethicist who taught any of us who would listen as much about love as did James Baldwin or Marlon Riggs or Marianne Williamson any other seer for whom Love with a capital L is the ultimate act.

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.