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Quotes About Justify

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
~ Arthur Miller
The goal is not to justify your decision to buy the investment at whatever price you originally paid for it.
~ Gary Belsky
Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect and justify myself: to re-brand what was good for me as something appearing good for us both, when I threw around terms like 'the sharing economy' and 'disruption' and 'global resourcing.'
~ Anand Giridharadas
I'm not supporting nor not supporting TV casting shows - there is no doubt they are created for financial reasons - but I don't have a problem with wanting to sell tickets, and if you want to do an arena version of a rock musical, you have to sell a lot of tickets to justify the cast.
~ Tim Minchin
The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.
~ Bob Dylan
You seem very anxious to lose your life." "To justify my life, Sir.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects. pg. xxxiii
~ Simone de Beauvoir
If we do not love life on our own account and through others, it is futile to seek to justify it in any way.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
What in me is darkIllumine, what is low raise and support;That to the height of this great argumentI may assert eternal Providence,And justify the ways of God to men.
~ John Milton
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
~ Arthur Miller
One mistake cannot justify another.
~ Raheel Farooq
Patience is only called patience when it ends up with results that Justify the time awaited, the emotions given and the tears spent.
~ Sameh Elsayed
We do not tell—we show. We do not claim—we prove.
~ Ayn Rand
Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
We're pack animals,beasts of burden. We must each bear a load, to justify our miserable existence.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life. If you allowed your dark and unspoken desires for your partner, for example, to manifest themselves—if you were even willing to consider them—you might discover that they were not so dark, given the light of day.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
I felt reluctant accepting the very lucrative and easy life Hollywood had offered me. All of it planted a seed: If I could do something about the conditions of the world, I could probably justify my position as an actor.
~ Sterling Hayden
It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Of the Four Tendencies, Obligers struggle most often against the temptations of loopholes. Rebels don't make excuses to justify doing what they want; Upholders and Questioners feel a greater pressure from their own inner expectations to resist loopholes. Obligers act when they're held externally accountable, so they look for loopholes to excuse them from that accountability.
~ Gretchen Rubin
You speak to the press at the Tour every day, but most often in a negative sense. Ninety per cent of the questions you are asked in the post-race press conferences are challenging or provocative, so you have to justify yourself; you have to try to give the right answers about every topic across the board.
~ Bradley Wiggins
The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it.
~ Justin Cartwright
Lord Bancroft had demanded that she source each fact and justify every opinion, while he played devil's advocate and asked why she didn't believe in the exact opposite of what she did.
~ Sherry Thomas
When you love, love with with all your heart; don't have any expectations. You love because that's the only way you know how. It justifies your life.
~ Rita Zahara
Heaven and happiness do not exist. These are stories told by your fathers to justify the crime of having brought you into this world. What exists is reality, harsh reality: this slaughterhouse where we came to die, to kill and by the way kill the animal, our neighbor.
~ Fernando Vallejo