Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Kearney

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

Elbert Hubbard

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

Elizabeth Drew

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.

Dirk Benedict

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

Dirk Benedict

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

Edwin Arnold

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

Edwin Arnold

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

C. S. Lewis

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

Janet Reno

Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.

Cameron Diaz

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

Abu Bakr

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

Ann Landers

Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

Dale Carnegie

If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified.

Anthony Daniels

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

Charles Caleb Colton

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Sasha Azevedo

Life is not recognized by living as much as it is by giving.

Jean Bruyere

Liberality lies less in giving liberally than in the timeliness of the gift.

Sathya Baba

LOVE lives by giving and forgiving.  Self lives by getting and forgetting.

Sandra Miniutti

So, giving this time of year is very important.

Greg Chandler

Milo is looking as good as any of the pitchers we have right now. He hasn't been in the rotation, but I have no problem in giving him the ball. Each time out he proves me wrong.

Larry Brown

Maybe we are giving effort. Maybe we aren't good enough.

Ally McBeal

Music is my way of sharing my story, of giving back, and hopefully offering hope.