Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Richard Davidson

I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.

Richard Rohr

The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.

William Hogarth

I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.

William Blum

Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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

Saul Alinsky

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

Said Nursi

Life is a manifestation of unity.

Seth Green

He is probably the highest-paid animal actor there ever was and you know, I knew he was going to be a big star, I just did. It's kind of inevitable,

George Herbert Mead

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

Neil Shubin

Here is a creature with fins that can do push-ups. This is clearly an animal that is able to support itself on the ground.

James Elliott

Have children in the home suggest songs from school. Hold a contest for the happiest song, the best song about animals or another topic. Give ribbons or certificates to the best songs.

Ed Boks

I think it's important that Animal Care and Control play a role in this since we're the ones who are left holding the bag, if you will, for not doing something,

Frank Brown

It could lift its head, but it was paralyzed. It couldn't lift its hind end. Then another gal stopped too, and she ended up calling the vet, Lebanon Animal Hospital, and they were gracious enough to get out of bed for us, and I brought her in.

Ron DeHaven

It is a likely explanation as to how this animal would have become infected.

Charles Platt

It is a different animal than home games.

Rand Pecknold

I thought (Fisher) was one of our keys to the game. RPI had that caged animal thing going after the first period.

Obie Trice

I would love to get with somebody who knows the fundamentals of making the movie, then get my money up and start getting into that.

James Surowiecki

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

Joanna Newsom

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.

Jim Rohn

There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.

Antonio Tabucchi

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Bob Brown

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Donna Dubinsky

It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.

Donald Luskin

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.

David Antin

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.