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.

James Dalessandro

I get bored easily, I'm always doing something different,

Herbie Hancock

I get bored easily, but later I learned that it is OK to do something that others have done.

Tim O'Reilly

I guess I would just say that in general, one of my weaknesses is that I love everything. There's too much of everything to keep up with it all. I get bored with Silicon Valley technology a lot. I've always had much more of a draw to the people who are doing things for love than the people who are doing things for money.

Alex Rezaev

If you live in New York City, you will never be bored for a second in your life.

John Cale

I just get bored with what I'm doing. I like to switch. I did a lot of soundtrack work, and once I got that under my belt, I started writing songs.

Dina Emde

I like doing all these events, it makes me more versatile and I never get bored just doing one, that's for sure.

Laurence Sir

I'm rather bored by the subject-meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

Lisa Cox

I'm OK being bored on the sidelines. If I'm sitting at practice doing nothing, then it's a good day.

Dominique Moisi

In 1968, after 30 years of full employment and economic growth, students were bored to death. Today, after 20 years of unemployment, the students of 2006 are looking for security.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

Rose Byrne

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

Winston Churchill

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

Zadie Smith

The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

Henry Rollins

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Henry A. Kissinger

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

Leonardo da Vinci

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

P. J. O'Rourke

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

Paul Christopher

Cynical is a fool's word for realist.