Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliott Smith

I've been here all three nights. I kind of like it down here by the river.

Sara Schopper

That's kind of how we've been all year at the line. We've been in and out all year.

Bryant H. McGill

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

Charles Spurgeon

O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.

Tim McGee

And, yet, he was so kind in the way he went about it,

Josh McRoberts

We got a quick lift, but then we kind of let up. We had our run, and then they had theirs. We didn't respond to their run as well as they had responded to ours.

Albert Schweitzer

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Conor Oberst

Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.

William Shakespeare

Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

Arnold Toynbee

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

Brigid Brophy

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

Edmund Burke

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Dalai Lama

If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.

Rumi

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Fair and softly goes far.

Meister Eckhart

No-one knows what the soul is.. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion.

Ezra Koenig

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

Jack Kemp

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

Bodhidharma

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Rumi

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

Rumi

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

Rumi

Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state.

Rumi

If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence.

Stevie Nicks

I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.

Esther Hicks

Anything you can imagine is yours to be or do or have. As you ask yourself why you want to have it, the essence of your desires is activated, and the Universe begins to bring it to you. The more intense your positive feelings, the faster it is coming to you. (It is as easy to create a castle as a button).

Jeff Cooper

Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combat

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Oppression is the essence of power.