Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Lynes

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

Virchand Gandhi

If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.

Woodrow Wilson

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

William Wycherley

Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.

William Wordsworth

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

William Hull

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

William Penn

Death cannot kill what never dies.

Khalil Gibran

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

Louise J. Kaplan

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Richard M. Nixon

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.

Tucker Carlson

Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.

Robin Tunney

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Robin McKinley

Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you

James Allen

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

Patrick Rothfuss

Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.

Leroy Chiao

As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.

Ken Blanchard

Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.

John Hodgman

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Maurice Denis

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

John Rentoul

But that's not to say it's not sincere as well.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Imogen Poots

Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.