Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

E. M. Forster

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

Philip Sidney

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

Felicia Hemans

We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

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.

George Eliot

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.

George Eliot

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

George Eliot

Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Gary Bauer

This country can be better than it is today, and I intend to make it better,

Barbara Mandrell

I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend.

Baha'u'llah

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.

Ayn Rand

That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant....

Benjamin Disraeli

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

Benjamin Disraeli

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Brian Boitano

First and foremost I am an American athlete and I am proud to live in a country that encourages diversity, openness and tolerance,

Brian Andreas

There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Bible Bible

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Robert Burton

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore

Orson Scott Card

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

Orson Scott Card

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

Orson Scott Card

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.