Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Sidney

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

George Eliot

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.

Jeff Lindsay

I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.

Jeanette Winterson

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.

Jeremy Taylor

Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

Erich Fromm

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Gerald Brenan

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

Anthony Storr

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Leroy Franklin

These are two very big games for us. We have a young team that is really is starting to come on and we're getting better with each game.

Rien Long

These are the games d-linemen live for. We were grooving.

Jerry Stackhouse

This is starting to become who we are. We feel that we are going to win these games and have the wherewithal to sustain anything any team throws at us.

Jim Tressel

This is one of those games that I don't know that you have to worry about getting anyone's attention,

Marc Bulger

You want it to be more balanced, ... You're not going to win many games in the NFL throwing it 60 or 70 times. It might work in high school and sometimes in college, but in the NFL you've got to have a running game.

Andy Reid

You're not going to win too many games in the NFL with six turnovers. When you really get down to it today, that was the problem.

Flip Saunders

You never feel like you're in good shape. These are all winnable games, but they're all games you have to go out and play. No one's going to give you the game.

Scott Johnson

You only score two runs and that is what happens. You are not going to win many games like that. Jones pitched well enough to win.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Barbara Stanwyck

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

Carice van Houten

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Bobby Fischer

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Deborah Tannen

When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Dikembe Mutombo

As a matter of fact I've been asked to come when I'm free to play at the White House.