Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Toynbee

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

Jane Austen

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Brigid Brophy

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

Edmund Burke

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Ben Jonson

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

Dalai Lama

So long as space remains So long as sentient beings' Suffering remains I will remain In order to help, In order to serve.

Dalai Lama

Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.

Dalai Lama

Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

Dalai Lama

It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one needs to be engaged, involved.

Mark Merritt

A disaster of this magnitude ... has never happened on this scale in U.S. history.

Paul Wolfowitz

The scale of the disaster is so enormous that, frankly, a big part of the effort has to go to figuring what the needs really are.

Tom DeLay

It would be such a disaster ... I think what you see is a combination of gratitude and prudence.

Bob Pratt

T he whole nation needs to come together and do whatever we can on all levels, so that we can help the people struck by this disaster.

Tod Martin

That's just a disaster as far as I'm concerned.

Quentin Crisp

You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster

Charles Scott

You really don't feel disasters like these until it hits home.

James Van Allen

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

W. S. Gilbert

Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Alexander Ovechkin

I saw the rebound and when the puck came to me, I said, oh my God, puck, I must shoot.

David Foster Wallace

If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

Ron Ziegler

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.

Sigrid Undset

I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.

Vanna Bonta

What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.

Elaine Chao

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known,