Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Sidney

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

George Eliot

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

Havelock Ellis

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Goldwin Smith

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

Golda Meir

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

Hosea Ballou

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

Harold Bloom

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

Ivan Turgenev

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

J. M. Coetzee

It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was proof that certain laws unknown to us held sway, or else that we had been following the promptings of our hearts all this time, and our hearts had not betrayed us.

Bobby Clark

A tie on the road at Michigan State wasn't the worst result. It's not going to hurt us if we can take something out these three games.

Ron Jirsa

Once you solve something, the next thing you see might be tougher. The second half, when we didn't push it up the floor, that hurt us. You want to make them move. When they get back and it's 5-on-5, it's tougher.

Tommy Maddox

It was time to quit working on things and just go play. If we could stop hurting ourselves, we're going to be pretty tough.

Jamie Campbell Bower

As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically and emotionally and that was what hurt the most - the fact that people were judging me based on nothing.

Charles Churchill

He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

Demi Lovato

If you're hurting, don't be afraid to seek the help you need! Speak to someone - it may just change your life.

Margie Pace

Erin hurt us. She had a tremendous size advantage.

Edgey Arbuckle

Boll is playing hurt right now, but I need her on defense.

Nicolas Massu

Everything hurt, my legs, my arms, my back.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Burt Ward

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

Carnie Wilson

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

Elizabeth Scott

Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me. I looked at it. "A. GUY." He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry.

Bobby Seale

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Boy George

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

Brigham Young

It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him.

Craig Marks

There's no way around it. Over here, if you want to sell a lot of records, you have to go to local radio stations in Dayton, Ohio, and shake the hands of men with satin jackets.

Kay Yow

There's not a player for Maryland who's not a threat. We had our hands full. They one of the most talented teams in the country, and we'll see soon if they may be the very best.