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There is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity. – George Washington	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In my desperation to be a good mother I talked Felicity Huffman into believing that all I was doing was giving my daughter a fair shot, i see the irony in that statement now because what I have done is the opposite of fair. I have broken the law, deceived the educational community, betrayed my daughter and failed my family. – Felicity Huffman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
In my desperation to be a good mother I talked Actress Felicity Huffman into believing that all I was doing was giving my daughter a fair shot, i see the irony in that statement now because what I have done is the opposite of fair. I have broken the law, deceived the educational community, betrayed my daughter and failed my family. – Felicity Huffman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Huffman's lawyers argued that the sentencing guidelines in those cases were much higher and reserved for the mastermind of schemes, not mere participants. Prosecutors, meanwhile, had argued that universities and testing companies were the victims of the schemes, and the amount that parents paid should correspond to the penalties' severity.But US Probation and Pretrial Services, which prepares pre-sentence investigation reports for each defendant, has argued overall, that the universities and testing companies suffered no monetary harm, and the price of the parents' bribes is therefore not relevant to any sentences. Actress Felicity Huffman loved ones wrote letters of support to the judgeMacy and other loved ones submitted letters to Judge Indira Talwani on Huffman's behalf, pleading for leniency. Each letter outlined Huffman's loyalty and commitment to the writer — an attempt to show Actress Felicity Huffman role in the admissions scam was an outlier in Actress Felicity Huffman life. Macy also shed some light on the immediate aftermath of Huffman's early morning arrest by the FBI in March.Two days after the arrest, Macy wrote, their eldest daughter was headed for an audition at a school she had her heart set on — one that didn't require SAT scores. But when Actress Felicity Huffman got off the plane, the school emailed Actress Felicity Huffman, formally rescinding its audition invitation because of the scandal. Eva Longoria and other celebrities write letters of support for actress Felicity Huffman ahead of Eva Longoria sentencingMacy wrote Eva Longoria and other celebrities daughter. – Eva Longoria	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Im sorry to you, judge. I am deeply sorry to the students, parents and colleges impacted by my actions, i am sorry to my daughters and my husband. I have betrayed them all. FELICITY HUFFMANS CO-STARS SAY SHES REMORSEFUL FOLLOWING COLLEGE SCAM BUST. – Felicity Huffman	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
When I began the TV show, I was very new to the business and industry as a whole, felicity was the first one to take me under Actress Felicity Huffman wing. From the first table read of the script, Actress Felicity Huffman noticed me sitting alone, scared and unsure of where to go and what to do. Actress Felicity Huffman gentle character and kind heart immediately opened up to me. – Eva Longoria	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I just feel sorry for Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman might have made a bad mistake. – Martha Stewart	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Both should expect to face withering criticism in the days ahead since this story touches a nerve, especially for parents without the means to pay their kids' way into prestigious schools, expect this topic to dog Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin since the nature of the sting operation reveals famous, rich and powerful people apparently playing by a different set of rules than everyone else. – Evan Nierman	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Tell them that they can be directed to Jeffrey Tambor, Jared Leto and Felicity Huffman's reps for comment. – Scarlett Johansson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There are a few out there I'm actually a big fan of, i think Ellen DeGeneres and Portia...and William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman -- they have a strong marriage, you can see that in the way they talk about their significant other. – Melania Trump	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Shopping, true feminine felicity ! – Letitia Elizabeth Landon	added by Madeleine Quinn 7 years ago
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love. – Spanish Proverb	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination. – Marquis de Sade	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen. – Abd Er-Rahman III	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty. – Edmund Spenser	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. – Robert Chapman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love. – Spanish Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

There is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

– George Washington

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In my desperation to be a good mother I talked Felicity Huffman into believing that all I was doing was giving my daughter a fair shot, i see the irony in that statement now because what I have done is the opposite of fair. I have broken the law, deceived the educational community, betrayed my daughter and failed my family.

– Felicity Huffman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In my desperation to be a good mother I talked Actress Felicity Huffman into believing that all I was doing was giving my daughter a fair shot, i see the irony in that statement now because what I have done is the opposite of fair. I have broken the law, deceived the educational community, betrayed my daughter and failed my family.

– Felicity Huffman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Huffman's lawyers argued that the sentencing guidelines in those cases were much higher and reserved for the mastermind of schemes, not mere participants. Prosecutors, meanwhile, had argued that universities and testing companies were the victims of the schemes, and the amount that parents paid should correspond to the penalties' severity.But US Probation and Pretrial Services, which prepares pre-sentence investigation reports for each defendant, has argued overall, that the universities and testing companies suffered no monetary harm, and the price of the parents' bribes is therefore not relevant to any sentences. Actress Felicity Huffman loved ones wrote letters of support to the judgeMacy and other loved ones submitted letters to Judge Indira Talwani on Huffman's behalf, pleading for leniency. Each letter outlined Huffman's loyalty and commitment to the writer — an attempt to show Actress Felicity Huffman role in the admissions scam was an outlier in Actress Felicity Huffman life. Macy also shed some light on the immediate aftermath of Huffman's early morning arrest by the FBI in March.Two days after the arrest, Macy wrote, their eldest daughter was headed for an audition at a school she had her heart set on — one that didn't require SAT scores. But when Actress Felicity Huffman got off the plane, the school emailed Actress Felicity Huffman, formally rescinding its audition invitation because of the scandal. Eva Longoria and other celebrities write letters of support for actress Felicity Huffman ahead of Eva Longoria sentencingMacy wrote Eva Longoria and other celebrities daughter.

– Eva Longoria

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Im sorry to you, judge. I am deeply sorry to the students, parents and colleges impacted by my actions, i am sorry to my daughters and my husband. I have betrayed them all. FELICITY HUFFMANS CO-STARS SAY SHES REMORSEFUL FOLLOWING COLLEGE SCAM BUST.

– Felicity Huffman

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

When I began the TV show, I was very new to the business and industry as a whole, felicity was the first one to take me under Actress Felicity Huffman wing. From the first table read of the script, Actress Felicity Huffman noticed me sitting alone, scared and unsure of where to go and what to do. Actress Felicity Huffman gentle character and kind heart immediately opened up to me.

– Eva Longoria

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I just feel sorry for Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman might have made a bad mistake.

– Martha Stewart

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Both should expect to face withering criticism in the days ahead since this story touches a nerve, especially for parents without the means to pay their kids' way into prestigious schools, expect this topic to dog Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin since the nature of the sting operation reveals famous, rich and powerful people apparently playing by a different set of rules than everyone else.

– Evan Nierman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Tell them that they can be directed to Jeffrey Tambor, Jared Leto and Felicity Huffman's reps for comment.

– Scarlett Johansson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There are a few out there I'm actually a big fan of, i think Ellen DeGeneres and Portia...and William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman -- they have a strong marriage, you can see that in the way they talk about their significant other.

– Melania Trump

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Shopping, true feminine felicity !

– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

– Quentin Crisp

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

– Spanish Proverb

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca