Quotes About Reconciliation

I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.

The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.

There are two projects facing each other. There's Marine Le Pen's project of a fractured, closed France. On the other hand, you have my project which is a republican, patriotic project aiming at... reconciling France.

Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.

In 2005, Republicans passed a 360-page reconciliation bill without a single Democratic vote that provided deep cuts to Medicaid and raised premiums on Medicare beneficiaries.

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.

That was one of the most hurtful things, to have my mother see me in court and to have my mother see me behind bars.

In my past, I said and believed things that were wrong and - worse - hurtful to the LGBTQ+ community and their loved ones.

I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too.

We did not seek ideological confrontation.

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.

You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past.

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take? They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No body will be argued into slavery.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

In this consisted the sin of Korah and his company, which caused Moses, though of great meekness of character, to be filled with wrath and anger, not because of their rejection of him as a mediator, but on account of their adverse opposition and antagonism to the principles of reconciliation, the existence of which they failed to perceive or ignored as operating in the preservation of the world.

Almost eight years, and Edison had only slipped and called her a nigger once. She'd been in no hurry to forgive him for it, but he'd apologized profusely—and had cried and played Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" over and over again on his piano before she let him back into their bedroom.

Baby, everybody got their own reasons for doing things they do in life. It don't matter what her reason was at the time, what matters is she come back for you, and even though you might think it's too late, it ain't never too late where a mother and her child is concerned.

The rope has been torn; a knot Can tie it again, but It's been torn. Perhaps we'll meet again, but You won't find me In the place where we parted ways.

Then human mind holds tight to those things it can't reconcile.

Mrs. Odell once told me that forgiveness had a whole lot more to do with the person doing the forgiving than it did with the person in need of forgiveness. She said holding on to hurt and anger made about as much sense as hitting your head with a hammer and expecting the other person to get a headache.

You can't run around town tryin' to get even with every person who does you wrong. Ain't enough hours in the day to do that. Besides, two wrongs don't make a right.