Repetition Ability Remains

Famous quotes containing the words repetition, ability and/or remains:

“When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“There is no more defiant denial of one man’s ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.”
—Gail Sheehy (b. 1937)

“Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man would desecrate it by his touch, and so the beauty of the world remains veiled to him. He needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized, on the soil of earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)