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.

Tracee Ellis Ross

I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

William Sloane Coffin

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

Walter Savage Landor

Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

Morarji Desai

I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.

Livia Landry

There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.

Alfred Stieglitz

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

Joyce Meyer

Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don’t let life slip by unnoticed.

Maggie Stiefvater

There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.

Macklemore

The moment is now and we cant get it back from the grave.

James Montgomery

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

Haruki Murakami

The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.

Cass Sunstein

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

J. Donleavy

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.