Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Smedley

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

Charlotte Bronte

Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

Charles Dickens

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

Charles Spurgeon

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.

Bram Stoker

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Alan Hovhaness

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Al Smith

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.

Charlaine Harris

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

Carol Kane

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

Carol P. Christ

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

Carlos Ghosn

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

C. S. Lewis

Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

Agnes Smedley

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.

Alan Thicke

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.

Alan Shearer

First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.

Alan King

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

Alan Kay

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

C. S. Lewis

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

Agnes Varda

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

Charlotte Bronte

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics make strange bedfellows.

Charles Dickens

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Djuna Barnes

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Jane Austen

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Alan Arkin

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult by the fact that it's constantly changing. You never know what class you belong to unless you're one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.