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.

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.

Rumi

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Fair and softly goes far.

Heather Turner

My compassion has led to my own demise. I guess the solution is that I don't rely on funds until I get them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Patrick Renn

He was facing a great number of years, regardless. But I think this does show some compassion on the part of the jury.

Rita Mae Brown

The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.

John Burnside

I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Billy Corgan

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

Dean Kamen

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.

Brad Williams

Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny.

Brian McDermott

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.