Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Rooney

You see people on rooftops. You see people separated from parents. There's a lot of empathy and sympathy.

Brene Brown

If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.

John Wooden

In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn.

Eoin Colfer

I am older and have more control over my empathy,' said Qwan. 'That's why I didn't throw up.' And having said that, he threw up.

Ira Glass

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Ira Glass

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Rich Feller

Spouses have worries about their spending habits, financial commitments and lifestyles. Meanwhile, they know they need to show empathy and support.

Carmen Wurgel

My prayer is that each of us look inside our own hearts. It takes a willingness to pause before we make an assumption. I think all this erupts because we don't wait -- we react. And the willingness to have empathy and just imagine what it would be like to be in someone else's skin -- that's my prayer.

Carl Rogers

When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviors turn out to be right in some odd way. At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger.

Billy Carter

I always said what I thought and I didn't hold anything back.

Bill Hicks

I've said all that I've had to say.

Theodor Reik

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Maureen Johnson

Did I just kill someone?" "You can't kill a dead person," Callum said. "Makes no sense.

Meg Cabot

Lana looked at me like I’d just said I’d never watched Bring It On, or something.

Meg Cabot

oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?

Paddy Ashdown

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

Laura Ingraham

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

Lisa Kleypas

I scowled defensively. "My conversations don't usually include the subject of erections." "Too bad," he said. "All the best conversations do.