Lenient Quotes

• 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.

  Mark Hoppus

  Growing Up, Differences, Parent

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• Sé un maestro duro contigo mismo y sé indulgente con los demás.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Work, Discipline, Masters

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• 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.

  Abdurrahman Wahid

  Knowing, Religion, Islam

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• 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.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Morning, Reality, Boss

  Entrevista en The Book Reporter, www.bookreporter.com. 21 de abril de 2000.

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

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Personalidad

  "Q&A – Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring)". AMC Intreview, www.amc.com.

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• Al fin y al cabo, un juez de distrito que dicta sentencias severas para los seguidores de los Yankees y sentencias indulgentes para los seguidores de los Red Sox no estaría actuando razonablemente aunque sus resoluciones procesales fueran impecables.

  John Paul Stevens

  Yankees, Giving, Judging

  Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, supreme.justia.com. 2007.

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• 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.

  Martin Amis

  Mother, Father, Years

  Martin Amis (2017). “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016”, p.116, Random House

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• It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

  Anthony Daniels

  People, Generosity, Mind

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• 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.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Teaching, School

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• My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Mother, Religious, Childhood

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• 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.

  Saadi

  Kindness, Anger, People

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• Responsabilízate de un nivel superior al que nadie espera de ti. No te excuses nunca.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspiración, Fuerza, Éxito

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• 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.

  Matthea Harvey

  Writing, Animal, Ice

  Interview with Wendy Vardaman, poems.com. 2010.

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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.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Might, Today

  "Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays". Book by Thomas Sowell, 1999.

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• Las ovejas no son las criaturas dóciles y agradables del idilio pastoril. Cualquier campesino se lo dirá. Son astutas, a veces viciosas, patológicamente estúpidas. El pastor indulgente puede encontrar a su rebaño rebelde, definitivo. No puedo permitirme ser indulgente.

  Joanne Harris

  Stupid, Sheep, May

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.17, Penguin

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• For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.

  Steven Pinker

  Niños, Crecer, Niños

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• 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.

  François Fenelon

  Thinking, Self, Long

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• Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

  Walter Scott

  Grief, Joy, Sorrow

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott: The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads, Marmion, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo, Harold the Dauntless, The Wild Huntsman…”, p.101, e-artnow

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• Mi madre no podía considerarse indulgente por mucho que ejerciera ágilmente una imaginación melancólica. Generosa era; indulgente, nunca. Amable, sí; permisiva, nunca. En su mundo, la gente que ella aceptaba remaba sus propias canoas, tiraba de su propio peso, arrimaba el hombro y empujaba como un demonio.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Exercise, People

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• Lo mejor es culparnos a nosotros mismos cuando la gente no se lleva bien con nosotros. La caridad sin límites necesariamente incluye a todos o deja de ser ilimitada. Debemos ser estrictos con nosotros mismos e indulgentes con el prójimo. Porque desconocemos sus dificultades y lo que superan.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Overcoming, Charity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Heaven, Infidelity, Forgiving

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• 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.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Thinking, Judging, Assault

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Hate, War, Fighting

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• El niño es un hábil actor con cien máscaras: una diferente para su madre, su padre, su abuela o su abuelo, para un profesor severo o indulgente, para la cocinera o la criada, para sus propios amigos, para los ricos y los pobres. Ingenuo y astuto, humilde y altivo, amable y vengativo, bien portado y voluntarioso, se disfraza tan bien que puede llevarnos de la nariz.

  Janusz Korczak

  Madre, Profesora, Hijos

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• Consejo a los jóvenes que escriben un diario. Sé indulgente contigo mismo. Disimula tus peores defectos, omite tus pensamientos, acciones y tentaciones más vergonzosos. Concédete todas las cualidades buenas e interesantes que quieras y que no tengas. Si murieras joven, qué consuelo sería para tus parientes leer la verdad y tener que decir: No es una perla lo que hemos perdido, sino un cerdo?

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Giving, Interesting, Advice

  Rosamond Lehmann (2012). “Invitation To The Waltz”, p.55, Hachette UK

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