Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs
Seneca
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
SENECA We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins griev...
JERRY BRIDGES Our women's union members and other women are really excellent and praiseworthy.
KIM JONG-UN Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
DEMOCRITUS We see not our own backs.
THOMAS CARLYLE Our backs are against the wall.
JAMAR SMITH Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with th...
TREVOR HAMMACK Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to disc...
LE CORBUSIER [O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]
RICHARD BAXTER Our own people are going to other cities because we can't provide our own fields.
COUNCILMAN FRANK LOPEZ I'm just hoping our guys will respond. Our backs are against the wall.
LEROY FOSTER When we allow our hands and our minds to wither in our efforts to control our own habits, our own hu...
GENE CRAWFORD Everything has been done behind our backs. That's what makes us suspicious.
LARRY ANDERSON We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, lab...
JOHN WINTHROP We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Our backs are our strongest unit. They had speed, strong headers and can come forward.
BILL CARUSO We must be our own before we can be another's.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We are punished by our sins, not for them.
ELBERT HUBBARD Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
BIBLE Our eyes are as open as much our minds are.
DEBASISH MRIDHA We are not punished for our sins, but by them
ELBERT HUBBARD We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
ELBERT HUBBARD Our hearts clearly see our own interests but they are completely blind to other people's interests
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention...
GARTH STEIN Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now...
GREGORY MAGUIRE We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.
JOSEPH PRINCE This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massiv...
CARLY FIORINA Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an ...
CHARLES SIMEON If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our...
ADONIRAM JUDSON There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
MARK TWAIN There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence
MARK TWAIN If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imag...
FREDERICK BUECHNER All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount an...
JIMMY CARTER In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by ...
DAVID BLAINE We must constantly remind ourselves that we are the image and likeness of God
SOTONYE ANGA Well, Helen, our eyes are pretty,
BILL LEONARD We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our lo...
MAEVE BINCHY Our backs are to the wall. We dropped two games we shouldn't have lost.
DAVID JORDAN It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins—when, b...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our ...
GARTH STEIN It's very dangerous to bet against Liverpool, especially when our backs are to the wall,
STEVEN GERRARD When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
ROGER W. BABSON We have to stay focused in the second half. Our backs are against the wall.
JUAN PALACIOS This has been a big thrill not only for our boys, but for the families. And we are all so grateful f...
KIM ANDERSON Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
DEBI GLIORI God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.
ROBERT IRVINE Our dreams and goals are never completely realized. They are always there before
our eyes, but alway...
JACQUELINE ONASSIS Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
JAMESON FRANK We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And ofte...
CARRIE PRESTON Our backs ran hard and our quarterbacks played well,
GLENN DAVIS We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
KEVIN KELLY Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in t...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The eyes are the doors to our perception, and the camera is our window.
MAURICE SPEES Our service department parks vehicles behind our building and at times we are just packed.
CARI YTURRI I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned
QUENTIN CRISP In our top squad we've got eight injured and a lot of them are outside backs.
BRIAN CANAVAN Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN We are injured and hurt emotionally,
Not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
But...
MAXWELL MALTZ We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But...
MAXWELL MALTZ Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our eyes will know the heavens if our lips stay for each other.
ROMAN PAYNE We're standing behind the transaction with our own pocketbook,
JEFF BEZOS More and more, we have to use our own eyes in good weather to look out for other airplanes.
PHIL BOYER For them to tie our hands behind our backs and prevent us from participating in this scientific fron...
JOHN WILEY Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth
KAYLAN PICKFORD I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our ba...
UMBERTO ECO Our wills and fates do so contrary runThat our devices still are overthrown;Our thoughts are ours, t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are l...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are lib...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our subjectivity is so completely our own.
SPIKE JONZE Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.
CEELO GREEN Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR. When a mute man sins, it's not with his tongue.
When a blind man sins, it's not with his eyes.
When ...
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL This allows legislators to understand the problems our seafood producers are dealing with. They can ...
EWELL SMITH We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call t...
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.
OPRAH WINFREY We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably a...
JAMES H. ROBINSON We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably a...
JAMS HARVEY ROBINSON We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably a...
JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON We live behind the closed doors of our own destiny.
SORIN CERIN It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain ou...
BRUCE CAMPBELL Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain ou...
MICHAEL CAINE I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each oth...
MADONNA CICCONE Our tasks are given, we are but instruments.
Nothing is all our own that we create.
SRI AUROBINDO I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
SENECA Our backs are against the wall. We can't afford to (mess) up anymore. This is it for us.
CHRIS MASON Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds
NAPOLEON HILL We don't know why it happened. We've never had anything like that before our hearts go out to our em...
MIKE RASNAK We are all imperfect. We have biases we are blind to seeing. We are ignorant in our own arenas. We h...
JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ You are your own cannoe and you are your own paddle, so paddle your own cannoe. Society had taught u...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR When we get to understand how equal we are, we'll understand each other in our own dissimilarities
REY CARRASQUEL It is impossible to exercise free will as long as we are operating from within the system. Free will...
MELANIE JOY We are not our own light.
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