I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains. . . For I feel that the best is none too good for the public that pays to hear a singer.
The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [. . . ] The objective of this battle must be the demolition of present-day Russia and must therefore be conducted with unprecedented severity. Every military action must be guided in planning and execution by an iron resolution to exterminate the enemy remorselessly and totally. In particular, no adherents of the contemporary Russian Bolshevik system are to be spared.
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
Nothing has been spared in this world.
The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses.
Would I sacrifice a friendship to take a step forward in my political career? Thus far in my political career, I have been spared from having to make such a decision, thank God. And I can't imagine what it must be like.
The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.
How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.
The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer's self-torment and soul-searching.
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.
May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.
I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to try and drown myself in the bath. You have to do that. And the impulse is to rescue yourself and to spare the reader, but I can't rescue myself. And why should I spare the reader when nobody spared me? It's telling people what happened.
If sacred places are spared the ravages of war. . . then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war. . . then make all people holy.
I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.