Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

Charles Spurgeon

There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

Charles Peguy

Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

Dennis Prager

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Democritus

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The cross is suffering with Christ.

Eduardo Galeano

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

Richard P. Feynman

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

David Howell

One-up, one to play, you fancy your chances.

John Fuller

When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don't think worked, though I love jazz.

Edgar Allan Poe

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

Mary Balogh

I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles.

Mads Mikkelsen

I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.

Herbie Hancock

I would be all over the piano, but Miles would play a few notes that would just wipe out all that fancy stuff I was playing.

Geraldine Brooks

I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third or fourth grade that I really settled down at school and I was much happier at home with my mum and she was very creative and sort of fostered all my interests.

Maisie Williams

I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

Jean Bruyere

Let us not overstrain our talents, for if we do we shall do nothing with grace; a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman

William Cullen Bryant

So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.

Ozzie Guillen

Mr. Cooper, the gentleman from New York wants to speak with you.

George Eliot

Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness

Debra Winger

It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.

Edgar Allan Poe

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

Dizzy Gillespie

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

Daniel Horowitz

one of the most gentle people I have ever known.

Dorothy Height

She said it in her gentle manner but with the same vigor of the prophets of old as they struck injustice,