Gail Simone Quotes

Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.

I just think that we're all humans; we all mess up. It's okay: we should give people room to learn from their mistakes. That's how evolution happens.

Everyone is human, and everyone makes mistakes.

I have heard it said that the measure of a civilization is how it treats those who have hurt it. I think a further measure is how it treats those who deeply disappoint it.

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.

I know a few expressions. I know what Hilary Clinton basically says in Russian when you translate her into Russian over and over and over is, 'izvinite pozhaluista.' That's, 'excuse me please, excuse me please.' Let's reset things. That's not the way you deal with folks. You show strength if you made a mistake.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

I believe in forgiveness; I believe in trying to work with people.

I'm human. I make mistakes.

I think I am a living example of Modi's capacity to forgive.

'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.

We're all entitled to make mistakes. I'm not one of these guys where if you make a mistake, I'm gonna try to tear your life down and burn it to the ground.

I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

I think there's good in everybody.