Quotes of: Justifying Keyword

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

The Great Gatsby

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.

Bullet

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis D. Brandeis

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give mor...

Christian de Portzamparc

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

Greg Lynn

That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out.

Artificial Gods

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

The Art of Power

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Rooftop Soliloquy

It's said that people who give excuses for the reason not do something always formulate those excuses, waiting for the reason to surface to justify their excuses!

Shaping the dream

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Life of Christ

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.

Levels of Life

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

The Library at Night

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

Lady Oracle

..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.

The Last Unicorn

Man does not commit sin in unintentional deed, but he might be the only one that could justify it.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women, and the discourse of feminism was specifically invoked.

One Dimensional Woman

Just your being here justifies that what I feel for you is strong enough to endure anything.

Take Me Now

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

Untimely Meditations

One mustn’t justify day-to-day morality with extraordinary circumstances. Otherwise, we would all feel free to rape and murder at the drop of a cat.

Unclaimed

As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her.

We Shadows