"Unatoned" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Left unatoned, the attack on the "Chesapeake" remained in American consciousness where Jefferson and Madison had sought to place it,—an example of the outrages of impressment. The incidental violence, which aroused attention and wrath, differed in nothing but circumstance ...
— Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 1 • Alfred Thayer Mahan
... like enough ye can hunt me out of the countryside, and leave my sons unatoned. But this way I'll reward thee. Never shalt ...
— The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald • Unknown
... higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who beat itself on the breast with its little fist and prayed in its stinking outhouse, with its unexpiated tears to 'dear, kind God'! It's not worth it, because those tears are unatoned for. They must be atoned for, or there can be no harmony. But how? How are you going to atone for them? Is it possible? By their being avenged? But what do I care for avenging them? What do I care for a ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
