Justifying Quotations

Everything is not black-and-white. I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful.

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.

One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.

Until now, financially justifying an investment in an automated system just wasn't an option for many customers. Now finally customers have an affordable option.

We found him obviously tired and haggard, unrepentant, even defiant, justifying crimes saying he was a just but firm ruler, our answer was that he was unjust ruler responsible for death of thousands of people.

Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.

I wish to state very strongly that the above reasons and others cited by the Attorney General through their lawyers in the London High Court are not sufficient or valid reasons justifying the ousting of jurisdiction of the Zambian courts in this matter,

I would expect there are students out there who rationalize that they cheated out of boredom with the class. That's like justifying a bank robbery, you can't.

Fund companies are having trouble justifying building up Web sites. It's amazing how few fund companies advertise at portals, Morningstar and online business sites.

The argument of 'We're bigger' is becoming less credible as the open-source movement takes hold. Using your financial might as the basis for justifying your value proposition is not going to withstand this shift.

We are increasingly nervous about our call for a quarter-point rate cut in February, even if we are not ready to throw in the towel. Continued sluggish growth should mean the next couple of years see a degree of disinflation, justifying lower interest rates.

Wal-Mart does nothing on a small scale. We respectfully suggest that Wal-Mart?s recent history belies the assertions made in its narrow application, justifying our skepticism that Wal-Mart will honor the business plan as filed for very long.

This report supports Greenspan's rosy economic view that the economy is likely to continue to grow unabated this quarter thereby justifying continued increases in short-term rates.

There are a number of offices that have interest in the circumstance. Look, I want to make perfectly clear: I'm not condoning or justifying any action, other than to say that the thing has to be viewed relative to other circumstances that did not receive national television exposure.

Cyclical sectors are at high valuations, justifying a more defensive stance.

Rather than justifying the use of excessive force, the government should be ensuring that the police and army act within the law to protect people's lives.

The old way of doing 'good business' was based on the principle, 'the ends justifies the means.' In the future, good business will invoke 'the means justifying the ends.' The E P&L can already serve as an important tool to help this shift in commerce from generating profits with collateral damages to profits with collateral benefits.

Speaking from Russia, Attorney General John Ashcroft reveals that an American named Jose Padilla is under arrest, accused of plotting a radiation bomb attack in this country. In fact, Padilla had, by this time, already been detained for more than one month. Number three. February 5, 2003. Secretary of State Powell tells the United Nations Security Council of Iraq's concealment of weapons, including 18 mobile biological weapons laboratories, justifying a U.N. or U.S. first strike. Many in the U.N. are doubtful. Months later, much of the information proves untrue. February 7, 2003. Two days later, as anti-war demonstrations continue to take place around the globe:

Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, ... The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs, or justifying or validating such violence.

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

They put out a whole stream of material justifying their actions and explaining their strategy,

A lot of people oppose using tax dollars to finance a stadium because they live too far or have no interest in the sport. But if it can be demonstrated that the public has a potential use of a facility, then elected officials at every level would have a much better case for justifying public participation.

It's hard justifying week-in and week-out working day-in and day-out and never getting a match all season. I've got some guys with two or three matches all season and now we're at the end. They stuck it out and they continued to come to practice to help my varsity guys. They're just a great group.

In the worst memoirs, you can feel the author justifying himself - forgiving himself - in every paragraph. In the best memoirs, the author is tougher on him- or herself than his or her readers will ever be.