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.

Bible Bible

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Charlotte Bronte

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

Charles Dickens

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Charles Dickens

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Charles Stanley

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Charles Stanley

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Jane Austen

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

B. C. Forbes

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

Bill Johnson

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

Ben Jonson

How near to good is what is fair!

Benjamin Franklin

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

Boethius

The good is the end toward which all things tend.

C. S. Lewis

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

Jim Houston

My goodness, I played at Ohio State from 1957-59,

Russian Proverb

There is no proverb without a grain of truth

William Shakespeare

May his pernicious soulRot half a grain a day!

Buddha

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Ken Cox

The grain does move on you. It is like quicksand,

Teresa Follmer

Try and go with the grain of the wood if we can.

Gregg Laskoski

We need to take it with a grain of salt when it comes to speculation of what may happen in the future.

Author unknown

I always take life with a grain of salt, ...plus a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila.

Chanakya

He who is not shy in the acquisition of wealth, grain and knowledge, and in taking his meals, will be happy

Phil Funkenbusch

There is a grain of truth to every character, but it's overboard, which I really love.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

C. S. Lewis

And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Abba Eban

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

Aaron Swartz

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

Alan K. Simpson

Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.

Charlie Haden

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.

Charles Caleb Colton

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.

Irma Gomez

We want for San Antonio to help! If you see my sister, if you see her, let us know! There is a reward out there for her.

Jaime Camil

When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.

Brian Weiss

The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.

Charles Spurgeon

One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.

Joanna Rose

We're not going to reward the union for striking.

Bruce Barton

The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

Juvenal

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]

Catherine the Great

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

Mary Rowland

It does really well, and we have tons of different publications.

Russ Diamond

There's tons more to come. This is just the first wave.

Rob Lowe

I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws.

Carmine Giovinazzo

I don't necessarily have friends who are forensic scientists, but I have tons of friends who are cops.

Aaron Tveit

I watch a lot of television. I always have.

Aaron Sorkin

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

Charlie Daniels

You'd better watch where you go, and remember where you've been

DJ Quik

Nowadays you can't tell, watch the crotch, it may swell.

Devon Sawa

When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.

David Tennant

How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.

Carolina Kostner

I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours...

Janet McTeer

I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.

Alan Rickman

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.