Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities. We cannot but be right if we put all the rest away, and do everything in remembrance of Him. There is no vengeance and no infliction of suffering in His life, I am sure. There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain!

Charles Dickens

And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?

Alan Perlis

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

Alan Paton

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

Alan Arkin

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

Alan Alda

Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

Chogyam Trungpa

Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things

Chogyam Trungpa

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

Dave Davies

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

Chris Abani

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

Edith Wharton

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

Antony Gormley

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

Antony Gormley

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

Antony Sher

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

Alan Thicke

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

Charles de Lint

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.

Charles Manson

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.

Charles Hodge

If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded

Atharva Veda

The Perfect Lord is All-pervading everywhere; He destroys the poison of Maya. I am rid of the three-phased Maya, dwelling in the Pure Lord.

David Beckham

We're in form. When we make the most of our potential, we can destroy any team we come up against.

Louis Malle

I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie.

Drew Goddard

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Tom Thomson

We're going to drive the people off the land who have been living on it and working it for generations. It's going to destroy our No. 1 industry: tourism.

Terry Brooks

what happens when a world destroys itself and must rebuild.

Jeff Tittel

There are people out there who want to destroy the highlands.

Italo Calvino

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

Robert Teeter

The endorsement of respected conservative Republican officeholders and politicians is particularly important at this time as to destroy Reagan's credibility as a loyal Republican.

Rick Miller

We hope to dispel some of the myths, identify knowledge gaps, sort out some of the issues related to juniper woodland expansion and increase the overall understanding of western juniper place and function in the northern Great Basin.

Waris Ahluwalia

If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.

Tenzin Gyatso

Buddha's full teachings dispel the pain of worldly existence and self-oriented peace; may they flourish, spreading prosperity and happiness throughout this spacious world.

Peter Morici

This moderate wage growth should dispel any notions the Fed may hold (that) labor markets and spiraling wages could reignite inflation.

George Thompson

There's a lot of misinformation going around. What we're about now is trying to dispel some of these things.

William Pickens

If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

Sandra Hughes

I want to dispel the notion that gasoline will hit $3 a gallon. It won't,

Ned Riley

Clearly, the focus going forward is going to stay on the macro news to either enforce or dispel the notion that inflation is rising.

Glenn Schifano

It seeks to dispel some of the frustrating, suffering that goes on here.

Bella Heathcote

I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.

Doug Ferrari

MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.

Diogenes

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human .

Cyril Connolly

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

Origen

The Word of God is like a lamp to guide us.

Robert Browning

And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost/ Is - the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.

Bhagavad Gita

As a lamp in a spot sheltered from the wind does not flicker, this simile is used for the subdued mind of a yogi practicing meditation on Brahman.

Bob Sowders

We're permitted and licensed for my lamp repair and Tillie's art. It's kind of a two-for-one deal.

Charles Dickens

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

Charles Dickens

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

Charles Dickens

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

Charles Dickens

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Charles Spurgeon

Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.

Charles Dickens

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Caleb Colton

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery is not profoundness.

Charles Caleb Colton

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

Charles Caleb Colton

Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.

Charles Caleb Colton

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

Charles Caleb Colton

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

Charles Simmons

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Daryl Kimball

They say, 'we're within the treaty, we're within our rights'.