Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

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?

Richard G. Scott

Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.

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.

David R. Brower

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.

Jane Austen

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Jane Yolen

In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons.

Thomas Mars

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

Tom Rath

Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.

John Erskine

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

Michele Patenaude

We're in a much better position than we were. This helps us to maintain the professionalism of our jobs and serve our students better.

Michael Milken

This provides something that is readable for the layperson and has been vetted by some of the top scientists. It helps you separate the misinformation.

Andrea Bocelli

It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

Lisa Vidal

I'm involved with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love anything that helps and improves the life of children.

James Galway

Singing is also important as this helps with your projection.

Scott Peters

She refused to be denied. Wilcox put a lot of pressure on us and to be able to survive that helps us be a better team.

Terri Blackstock

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

John Doherty

If I pushed the poor person out onto the street and his wife or passerby called 911, there would be no charge, ... This is a punishment fine, not for services rendered.

Ciaran Hinds

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

Matt Bomer

My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

Stacy Adams

He is the ironman. He's been a player for us since he stepped onto our campus.

Mamie Gummer

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

Sendhil Mullainathan

You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Carol Leifer

I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

C. S. Lewis

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

C. S. Lewis

Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

Agnes de Mille

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

Agnes de Mille

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

Agnes Repplier

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

Charles Dudley Warner

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

Charles de Gaulle

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

Gary Sharpe

We're going to the South side on Tuesday. Our seniors have never won down there.

Mark Lasley

Most of the seniors that are starting have been starting since they were sophomores.

David Mobley

Seniors always find a way to win. There?s wisdom in experience. It showed tonight.

Abe Badmus

We're going to do everything as seniors to keep this going.

Martin Brown

We have several seniors from a lot of different sports,

Meggie Ford

We thought some of our other seniors were going to get on through, but it was a heartbreaker.

Matt Loveland

We wanted to (get to state) for the seniors and we wanted to do it for (Graham).

Dustin Villepigue

I was wondering what he was doing there. I didn't have the ball. Then he swung at me, but I didn't swing back because seniors aren't supposed to retaliate.

Colleen Kennedy

We have a lot of seniors this year,

Mark Rey

We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.

Meryl Streep

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

Byron Katie

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Tequan Richmond

Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.

Jane Addams

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Francois Bozize

We are a hospitable country, which is why Jean-Bertrand Aristide is here. And he will stay here for a while.

I. Stone

We're here to stay and see this thing through.

Chan Ho Park

My main problem has been staying healthy.

Demi Lovato

Every single day is a battle to stay strong.

Beth Brooke

It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.

E.R. Rock

Everything we say and everything we do teaches something to our children.

Anne Francis

Each one wanted to be the one who teaches her about life.

C. S. Lewis

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

C. S. Lewis

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

C. S. Lewis

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

C. S. Lewis

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Alan Sugar

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

Alan Kay

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Charlotte Bronte

Conventionality is not morality.

Charlie Chaplin

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

Charles de Gaulle

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.