Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Smith

Our message is one of sympathy and compassion. This takes human compassion to respond to this kind of devastation. We are in this for the long run and there are no easy fixes.

Alan Wong

Our spirit is to be considerate and have compassion for people. It's a social responsibility.

Bhagavad Gita

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

Bill Ferguson

Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion.

Carl Safina

The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best. Not what is right for me but what is right. Not how much can we take? but How much ought we leave? and how much might we give? Not what is easy but what is worthy. Not what is practical but what is moral.

Bethany Hamilton

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

Susan Adams

It feels like a total lack of compassion. A total lack of humanity.

Atharva Veda

It is foolish to try to shape the World; shape yourself as the embodiment of Peace, Love and Reverence. Then you will see all as Love, Compassion and Humility.

Phil Angelides

I think voters are seeing each and every day that this governor just doesn't have the competence and the credibility to govern.

Sorin Cerin

It is only now that I understand that Love would have no competence without this lie that is a Truth!

Michael Caddell

There are so many inconsistencies between their data and their conclusions you have to question either their competence or their integrity.

Shimon Edelman

to revise some of their preconceptions regarding language acquisition by children, language competence in adults and second-language instruction.

Charles Morrison

Personally, privately, we don't hate (Morgan). Kinship, by clan, there's nothing wrong with that. He does not have the knowledge or the competence to lead his people.

Scott Snyder

I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.

Philip Hoffman

These things happen from the top down, and from the top there was a sense of humor and a confidence and competence that you don't question.

Robert Schaeffer

The volume is way up, and the people with the competence to do this don't exist.

Anne Manes

It's questionable, though, how long it will take for the Red Hat sales and marketing team to gain competence in selling an application platform, which is much further 'up the stack' than the operating system.

Richard Jefferson

Our offense failed us. A lot of the decision-making.

Jeff Carty

People here know that I don't get intimidated easily. I think the only thing I was worried about was failing because so many things have happened the last three to four years of my life.

Tom Gavin

People make errors. The problem here was not the error. It was the failure of us to look at it end-to-end and find it. It's unfair to rely on any one person.

Michael Riedel

People involved in 'Mamma Mia!' think Wynn is trashing their show because he tried -- and failed -- to get it himself.

William Feather

Success makes us intolerant of failure, and failure makes us intolerant of success.

Jeffrey Bryant

Success is a prize given to those who try and fail willingly.

English 20th Century Proverbs

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Henry King

Stay for me there; I will not fail / To meet thee in that hollow vale. / And think not much of my delay; / I am already on the way.

Rocky Nichols

State policy and state law failed the victims of the Kaufman House.

Michael Carter

Recount or no recount, there's going to be a government without a strong mandate or much flexibility.

Sitaram Yechury

Parliament has to urgently and immediately take up the issue. It is up to the government to see how they do it. Parliament will have to enact the law. Eventually, even it (ordinance) will have to come to parliament.

Samir Acharya

Suddenly, the government of India has taken a very keen interest in these far-flung islands.

Kathleen Blanco

State government must work leaner but smarter than ever before,

Roger Launius

Our position would be that it is, and always has been, government property.

Takeo Hiranuma

Our task is to make sure the government does not submit the bill.

Barry Goldwater

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

B. R. Ambedkar

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

B. F. Skinner

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

James Avery

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

Miles Johnson

I don't think anything in Oregon will be comparable.

Jim Wright

He was one of the people who made Southern Oregon what it is.

Todd Genke

Greg is a move-in from Oregon who can pitch and play third base. Plus, he's a left-handed hitter.

Michael Bennett

We didn't do much, though. We had to get on a plane and go play Oregon and Pacific.

Douglas Coupland

Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind.

David Leslie

The reality in Oregon is that we are addicted.

David Anders

I'm from Oregon. This is a town of no. I say no to a lot of things, and I get told no for a lot of things. Sometimes there's a yes, and you hope you see something in it.

Dave Barry

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

Victor Chayet

Recent generations didn't receive telegrams and didn't know you could send them.

Benjamin Franklin

Receive before you write, but write before you pay.

Kelly Downard

I think the recommendation will probably be received favorably. We don't have one.

Robert Lawson

I was unaware of water in garages in The Vineyards until I received these letters. That's disturbing.

Sen. Nass

I think it will receive an even more overwhelming reception in the Senate.

Hariadi Wibisono

I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.

Harold Williams

I was going through various hypothetical situations: What if we receive a stolen object? What if it turns out one of our dealers say someone like Symes turns out to be a fence?

Richard Kolko

If we receive a request we will assist.

Christian Winthrop

He has received a lot of support from Yonkers and Westchester. A lot of them were contributions that were under $200 that were not itemized.