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.

Suzanne Fields

There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.

Timothy Noah

Right now, as I'm typing this, some liberal somewhere is saying something unforgivable about Michelle Bachmann or Ann Coulter. I condemn you, whoever you are! But I'm not going to conduct a house-to-house search to find you.

Carl Jung

Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.

Roger Pilon

With today's decision, no one's property is safe, since any time a government official thinks someone else can make better use of your property than you're doing, he can order it condemned and transferred.

Bernard Ebbers

WorldCom condemns unauthorized carrier switches, and we cooperated fully with the FCC's review, ... The incidents highlighted by the FCC were perpetrated by a few sales employees, who have since been terminated.

Margaret MacDonald

There are low views of God's holiness, and a ceasing to condemn sin in the flesh, and a looking from him who humbled himself, and made himself of no reputation.

Jacques Chirac

France in the strongest possible way condemns these hateful acts,

Yasser Arafat

I don't know. But you know we have condemned this. And not only that, I gave instructions to search who had sent this.

MoliFre

One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

Norman Reedus

I had fears going into television that it might become boring to me, and I always like to be challenged, push myself. You do a film, and you know where you're going; you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

Todd Clark

Leading indicators were stronger than expected. It may have rekindled fears of rate hikes.

Jonathan Brandis

I was so young I really didn't have any real fears or hesitations about the business. It's when I got older when I realized how much it all meant.

Akitsugu Bando

Basically, fears about possible higher interest rates in the near future have not been erased.

Bill Rammell

I do not think those fears are justified.

Rudyard Kipling

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears

Bill Buford

Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn't want visitors. It fears discovery.

Hans Kung

Up to now, the worst fears have not been realized. He has found another style.

Sloane Crosley

There is no such thing as a crazy dog person in New York. Are there people who are completely insane about their dogs? Hordes. But cat people may as well have whiskers and tails themselves. That's because their pets' lack of social need taps straight into our worst fears as the human inhabitants of New York.

Carlos Castaneda

...that was the way human beings are; they love to be told what to do, but they love even more to fight and not do what they are told, and thus they get entangled in hating the one who told them in the first place.

Carl Andre

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

C. S. Lewis

Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.

C. S. Lewis

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

Tom Borrelli

Whenever you have seniors you hate to see them go. I know it was a special night for Mark and Jason.

Eddie Jones

Whenever you come back from an injury like that, it takes time to get your rhythm back. The only thing I tell Caron is, 'Keep taking open shots. Don't turn down shots.' Sometimes he has a tendency to do that, to put his head down. I hate when he does that. He needs to keep shooting.

Snoop Dogg

We want people who hate to lose, like myself. Now marinate on that.

Agnes Varda

I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.

Agnes Repplier

The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.

Gregory Allen

She was very irrational and having visions and hallucinations,

Karen Harris

Upset is an understatement. He was irrational and verbally abusive.

Orson Scott Card

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Sgt. Maynard

He was very incoherent and made irrational statements on scene.

Manouchehr Mottaki

I predict that the irrational American view will not prevail in the Security Council.

Harrison Birtwistle

It's the irrational things that interest me.

Michel Onfray

Religion is an irrational construct.

Jean Glavany

In Brussels, we were told that there was no question of supporting such an irrational slaughter.

Joe Hill

The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.

Andy Behrman

My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.

Box Brown

Honestly, I try to think about when I first got into wrestling, and I remember Wrestle Mania VI being the first time that I watched Wrestle Mania as it happened.

Cindy Sheehan

You get that maniac out here to talk with me in person.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

Ray Bradbury

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

John Malkovich

I'm not a control maniac.

Samuel Beckett

Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.

Vincent Gallo

I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it.

Carol Roth

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Carol Leifer

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

Carol Vorderman

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

Carlos Fuentes

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Carlos Castaneda

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Carlos Castaneda

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Carlos Castaneda

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Carlos Castaneda

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

Rick Colby

Ultimately, I think the patients need to step up on this issue.

Jim Yong Kim

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

Richard Smallwood

The person recovered after two weeks and was well when released from hospital. There was no spread of SARS from this patient to his contacts.

Brett Hull

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

Austin O'Malley

If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.

Jane Goodall

Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.

Carl Jung

A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

Carl Jung

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.

Bernard Levin

The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.