Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sissy Spacek

He is just fantastic. As Ruth Fowler, I had to hate him while we were filming. And when I saw the film, I had such empathy for him.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Roger Ebert

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy,

Zhuangzi

The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.

Rebecca Solnit

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

Barack Obama

It's puzzling, given his immediate response during 9/11, that he did not feel a greater sense of empathy toward the folks that were experiencing this enormous disaster, ... This Week.

Nhat Hanh

The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.

Paul Bloom

I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we get from virtual experiences. My complaint is against empathy as a moral guide. But as a source of pleasure, it can't be beat.

Paul Bloom

I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Vincente Minnelli

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

Woody Guthrie

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.

Daniel O'Connell

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Harry McDonald

I think that you will see the morale lifted,

Cillian Murphy

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

Tucker Carlson

We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.

Tullian Tchividjian

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

Vincent Van Gogh

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

Robert Wright

Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe - conceivably - the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.

Walter Lippmann

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.