Quotes About Correction

My numbers show that at least 16.5 percent of attacks between 2014 and 2017 were stopped by concealed handgun permit holders. Back in 2015, when I pointed out errors in the first FBI report, the authors simply responded, "We acknowledge in the FBI report that our data are imperfect." But no correction was ever made.

When a long abuse of power is corrected, it is generally replaced by an opposite violence. In the new dispensation all that was good in what went before is tarred indiscriminately with the bad.

Bishop on "At the Fishhouses" At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I found I'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope they corrected it all right. 2 Quite a few lines of "At the Fishhouses" came to me in a dream, and the scene— which was real enough, I'd recently been there—but the old man and the conversation, etc., were all in a later dream

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

An act may be wrong, but unless the ruling power recognizes the wrong, it is useless to hope for a correction of it.

Fasting, then, is a divine corrective to the pride of the human heart. It is a discipline of the body with a tendency to humble the soul. "I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God," records Ezra (8:21; see also Isa. 58:3).

justice and the birch.

You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

Looking back over the years, I realize the Bible isn't magic, but it is corrective; it isn't an answer book, it is a living book; it isn't a fix-it book, it is relationship book. When I confront God's word, I am confronted; when I read God's word, it reads me; when I seek God's presence, He seeks me.

There was a paperwork mishap on 'War For The Planet Of The Apes,' in that the end credits was simply called 'End Credits.' And that's what appears on the album. Once we realised that was out there, we were so ashamed.

Discipline is not a negative word. It comes from the Greek word to train.

You have the authority to correct them when necessary, so don't let anyone disregard what you say. —Titus 2:15

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

De waarheid is een gecorrigeerde vergissing.

If you are to punish a man retributively, you must injure him. If you are to reform him, you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries.

a horsewhipping is not likely to be paid for with sugar-plums.

Not that Mr. Stelling was a harsh-tempered or unkind man; quite the contrary. He was jocose with Tom at table, and corrected his provincialisms and his deportment in the most playful manner; but poor Tom was only the more cowed and confused by this double novelty, for he had never been used to jokes at all like Mr. Stelling's; and for the first time in his life he had a painful sense that he was all wrong somehow.

If we want to make Tiger Woods's or Al Gore's face, the best thing would be to have them come to our light stage so we can scan their faces for our database. But in a couple of hours, all we can do is find a face which looks similar and then correct it.

Every time the market has corrected, since 2008, it's always been the Fed that's made the bottom. The Fed has always saved the market either by cutting rates, launching QE, or threatening to launch another round of QE.

The biggest thing I take away from practice and every meeting in the NFL is it's a process. If you miss a question in a meeting, that's fine. We'll correct it, but don't do it again. If you miss a throw or an adjustment, it's fine.

Knowing when to correct and train, when to overlook, and when to enjoy and praise is a constant balancing act for a parent, but I tried to err on the side of compassion and sympathy with Nathan. These seemed to be the tools that opened Nathan's heart to correction. And these gifts could only be given through personal time invested over and over again.

If someone sent you a suicide note," Gertrude said. "You'd correct the spelling and send it back to them." "They'd at least die grammatically," said Alice.

I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.