Top 77 Rectify Quotes & Sayings

Whenever one pulls the trigger in order to rectify history's mistake, one lies. For history makes no mistakes, since it has no purpose.

It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.

Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

What is necessary is to rectify names.

Everyone's disappointed when they don't feel like they play well or they make a mistake. I'm the first one to hold my hand up and try and rectify that in training or the next game.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.

If any player has a bad game its there in the back of your mind in the next game. Theres always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.

The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future.

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

The BP oil spill nearly crippled our state and did damage to our coast and communities that will take years to rectify.

When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.

...He palmed up the life Alert. Death Alert was more like it: Help, I haven't fallen and I'm standing up-can you come and rectify this problem? - Isaac

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

It's become a cliche to say that a piece of drama is about 'the nature of truth.' But 'Rectify' so openly plays with the slippery nature of memory that the label directly applies.

We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.

No other method in this world is able to cure/rectify the demons that exist within human beings in this world - only nature and the animal kingdom, but you also have to bring through your participation and diligent application in facing the demons within.

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do it myself. So I instituted a suit against the city of Baltimore demanding that the city assessor be specifically ordered to assess the Church for its vast property holdings in the city, and that the city tax collector then be instructed to collect the taxes once the assessment has been made.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.

'Rectify' is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.

'Rectify' is really good.

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

That's the great thing about the Tour. There's always next year and the chance to rectify everything.

I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.

I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

I have no problem in asking a diner to leave for two reasons: 1. If they are rude to my staff. No one has that right. If we make a mistake, allow us to rectify it. 2. If they are loud and abusive at the table. They have no regard or respect for the other diners, who may have worked very hard to save up their cash to afford your prices.

For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history.

Awards are very important for a show like 'Rectify.' We're a small show; we're on a more obscure, harder-to-find channel that is very supportive of creative and singular vision.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers

Rectify is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.

The secret of success lies in realising one's mistake, understanding where one went wrong and taking steps to rectify that mistake.

A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

'Rectify' has been beautiful and emotional but grueling. In a beautiful way, in the right way.

When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.

Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrary, I conclude that God, being both just and merciful, will and can rectify all inequities in a life after death.

In films, there is no scope to rectify any mistake... but in theatre, you can rectify it the next day.

My biggest concern for the Lakers - and they're going have to figure out a way to rectify this - is Lonzo Ball.

Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any way I can. SARS didn't work, but trust me, I'm cooking up something better. In the interim, please kill lots of yourselves.

My job is to rectify the public finances and hand the country back to the people so they can really have a future, and that is what I will do.

The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.