Mercy Quotes

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“As humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.”

- Valerie Solanas

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

- Dwight Yoakam

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

- Gary Oldman

There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

- Kiefer Sutherland

I guess you can get to a level where you choose. I guess when you reach that point maybe you start making decisions about whether you want to be a leading man or woman. I`m not at that point at all. Where I am now, you`re very much at everybody else`s mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It`s just important to know what your own goals are, because that`s empowering."

- Rose Byrne

At the end of the day, you either want or you don`t want to know about it. It`s a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.

- Thierry Henry

For as far back as I can remember, I knew I must undertake corporeal works of mercy... they would make me feel better and want to keep on being good.

- Robert Vaughn

We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

- Bobby Jindal

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

- Heinrich Himmler

Being `at the mercy of legislative majorities` is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

- Robert Bork

Pretty woman, I don`t believe you, you`re not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.

- Roy Orbison

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

- Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

- Winston Churchill

The POWs called these rescuers the angels of mercy.

- Michael Hurst

Most people call me Mercy. I like it.

- Mercedes McCambridge

I will always produce my own films and avoid finding myself at the distributor`s mercy. You must become a producer if you want any control over the fate of your work. Otherwise, it becomes another person`s film and he does with it what he pleases. I only had one experience like that and I will never repeat it.

- Wim Wenders

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

- Michael Badnarik

I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We`re cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.

- Barry McGuire

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

- Jo Stafford

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

- Kelly Miller

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

- John Gay

We have two very talented veterans in Mercy and Christine and we look for both of them to have another strong year up top for us, ... With the addition of Comfort and Tamika, we will be very athletic and quick on offense. I think these forwards will really cause our opponents to pay special attention to them and that should open other things up for us.

- Anne Moore

We will help where we are needed, ... We are at their mercy.

- David Gilbert

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

- John Calvin

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

- John Calvin

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

- Giacomo Casanova

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.

- Christopher Columbus

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

- Jane Grey

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

- Suzanne Fields

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

- William Rotsler

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

- Addie Ince

He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.

- Adrien Cote

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

- Alan Cropsey

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

- Alan Rodger

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

- Alan Rodger

The essence of justice is mercy.

- Alberto Adrianzen

And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?

- Alex Okosi

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

- Alice Besterman

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people`s formulations of what`s important.

- Allen Floyd

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.

- Amani Abeid Karume

Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me.

- Amani Abeid Karume

I`m afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

- Amy Holtsford

According to Augustine and many of his successors, all men deserve eternal torture, but God in his infinite mercy saves a very few.

- Andrew Krcik

At issue was the question whether this man`s faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

- Andrew Lindsey

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can`t compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

- Andrew Motion

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

- Andrew Nielson

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

- Andrew Salner

I am innocent of all charges and will never admit to these lies. If there is any ground of truth in these statements, then it is because of childish ignorance and the evil companions with whom I was formally surrounded. I also seek to state, that I am faithful to the King and would never wish harm upon him. I will seek his mercy, but not by admitting to these treacherous lies.

- Angela Barraza

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won`t.

- Angelica Salas

Wherever this plant is located - if it`s in North Florida - everybody is at the mercy of the wind. The plume would go to Leon County as well as Madison.

- Ann Dumas