Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

E. M. Forster

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

Dorothy Day

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

Alphonsus Liguori

By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

Daniel Wallace

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

Alton Brown

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

Thomas E. Mann

I will keep faith with death in my heart... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's heart be ruled by death... The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the .emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

Simone Weil

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

Elif Safak

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

Eleanor Roosevelt

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

Pattie Boyd

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

Aldo Leopold

Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm.

Aldo Leopold

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not...

Aldo Leopold

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

Andrew Young

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

Anthony de Mello

The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.

David Chang

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

Kurt Vonnegut

This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.

Jan Egeland

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

Ann Brashares

Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

Alfred Jarry

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

Don DeLillo

The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.

Chuck Palahniuk

She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

David Cronenberg

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

Thomas Browne

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

Susan Griffin

Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.