#mending

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#another #any #disclosure #display #error

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#belongs #constitutional #constitutional right #country #exercise

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. ↗

— Herman Melville

#alike #cracked #dreadfully #head #heaven

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution. ↗

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#against #amending #any #believe #constitution

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#amending #constitution #destructive #dishonorable #i

I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt. ↗

— James McGreevey

#ashamed #best #convinced #dishonesty #felt

If I can't have you for the rest of my life, I will be alone. ↗

— J.B. McGee

#gabby-gerhart #love #mending #this-trilogy #life

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#by the time #family #friends #i #judge

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. ↗

— David Leavitt

#before #bumps #her #instinct #knots

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#amending #amendment #been #constitution #fact