Consolation Quotes

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

Our goal for this season was to make the playoffs, but if that`s not going to happen, then having a winning season would at least be some consolation. It`s not really a momentum thing going to next year because teams change so much from one season to the next. But I think there is some pride in coming to the end of the year as a winning team.

When you`re in the muck, you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck, but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things, too. That`s the consolation of philosophy.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

I ran like a champion. It is a great consolation to show how dominant I am. I am the Olympic champion and the world champion, but I want Justin Gatlin to be the champion of everything,

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

On the womens side, we are really starting to get some good depth. We have the ability at the MAAC Championship to final multiple kids in some events and certainly have some in the consolation events,

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

I feel very sorry for your victims. It will be some small consolation that they can get two thirds of their money back. You are a crook, you are in prison, and that is where you deserve to be.

All 14 guys contributed and we had some (consolation) guys win some big matches for us. Some of our guys are a little disappointed, but I think they wrestled hard and did the things we asked of them.

Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction".

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind`s disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

If I were John Bolton, I`d take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

"An unforgettable, great day for us on which so clearly the mercy of God has visited us. At 1:15 in the afternoon, Alix gave birth to a son who was in prayer named Alexei. Everything has happened remarkably soon - for me at least. In the morning, as usual, I visited Mama, then I received a report from Kokovtsov and the artillery officer Kleptov wounded at Wafangou and I went to Alix to have lunch. She was already upstairs, and half an hour later this happy event came about. I have no words worthy enough to be able to thank God for the consolation granted by Him in this year of hard trials. Darling Alix felt quite well. Mama came at 2 and sat long by my side before her first meeting with her new grandchild. At five I went to church service together with the children where the whole family had gathered. Wrote a mass of telegrams." The whole country was overjoyed at the birth of an heir after waiting nearly 10 years for one