Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Doria Russell

John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves.

David Woods

Her kindness and compassion for her friends touched many soldiers throughout the company.

Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Patrick Renn

He was facing a great number of years, regardless. But I think this does show some compassion on the part of the jury.

Laura Thomasson

I have come to a greater compassion for people who suffer. Why is this happening? I just want to put the question out there so people will have more compassion.

Richard Davidson

I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.

Richard Curtis

Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to have three staples in the program, not just two,' Bob feels people dying somewhere.

William McNamara

Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production.

Richard Gere

When I am there [Tibet], I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. His holiness [the Dalai Lama] generates love and compassion to every human being. He has committed himself to that. I haven't made that leap yet. I haven't given up self-aspiration. I still love making movies.

Sandra Bernhard

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

Vladimir Lenin

Destroy the family and you destroy society

Robin Morgan

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

Germaine Greer

After thirty years of feminism there is vastly more pornography disseminated more widely than ever before.

Mary Harron

I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

Phyllis Schlafly

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Tavi Gevinson

Feminism is not a rulebook, but a discussion, a conversation, a process.

Emily Ratajkowski

Social media is something women didn't have 10 years ago, and that's a big aspect in feminism today. I don't have to be filtered by anyone. I choose.

Katha Pollitt

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Russell Banks

Nobody does anything for one reason.

Russell Brand

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

William Wycherley

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

Sarah Silverman

I have lows, you know, everybody does ... but I kind of know how to handle it. I like to let myself wallow in it. I enforce it with terribly sad music, and it kind of pushes me through to the other side eventually, and I always know it's going to pass.

Rodney King

I tell myself time heals. It really does.

Robert Silverberg

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Robert Schumann

Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?