Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.

Albert Schweitzer

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

Albert Schweitzer

No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

Albert Schweitzer

The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond.

Albert Schweitzer

The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.

John Burnside

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

Shelly Williams

One of my trackers made the sound of a duiker, a small antelope, as if it were in pain.

Hector Munro

No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

Van Orden

One tragedy here, one tragedy there, ... We go through different acts, but we all go through the same pain, the same suffering, the same recovery.

Matt Lee

Second in state, definitely a good accomplishment. Nothing to be ashamed of. A lot of kids do well one year and the next year they do the same or worse. I was happy that I could at least say that I improved.

Scott Parrish

My kids played extremely hard and they have nothing to be ashamed of. They executed the game plan perfectly, but King's picked up their defense and made it hard for us to get good shots at the end.

Maureen McGovern

Of course I'm glad I've become known for other things, but I'm not ashamed of my past. I look back on those times as being very exciting for me as a performer and, in fact, I still sing some of those songs today.

Adam Vaccari

My goal was (to finish in the) top three. But after I found out the strength of this weight class, getting fifth . . .that's a good weekend and I'm not ashamed at all.

Jeremy Warren

Maybe Chris doesn't know the difference. This is a slanderous distortion of the record, and Chris Bell should be ashamed of himself.

Sammy Morris

When you're an athlete and can expose to people that you battle a lot of the same things that they go through, it helps them believe in themselves. You're talking about someone who is established as a very good player in this league who is able to relate that. Young people can see that he was brave enough to not only overcome it, but talk about it and show that he came out OK, that there's nothing to be ashamed of.

Tom Rachman

Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

Erich von Stroheim

When you ask me why I do such pictures I am not ashamed to tell you the true reason: only because I do not want my family to starve.

Will Smith

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Debra Messing

Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.'

Jesse Ventura

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

Kelly Clarkson

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

Ted Nugent

I don't like repeat offenders; I like dead offenders.

Pope Francis

To all of you, I repeat: Do not let yourselves be robbed of hope! Do not let yourselves be robbed of hope! And not only that, but I say to us all: let us not rob others of hope, let us become bearers of hope!